In a small, muggy room inside a whitewashed house in Dakar, the capital of the West African country of Senegal, eight artists hunch over their drawing boards, sketching scenes for a new animated ...

I’m at Art X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair that takes place every November at Victoria Island’s Federal Palace Hotel. The maze-like marquee attracts hundreds of thousands of art ...

Global auction sales of works by African-born artists fell 8.4% last year to just under US$80 million, yet the market continues to show strength particularly for contemporary artists, and, strikingly, ...

The biggest art fair in West Africa draws artists and curators alike to build on the success of African art in the region and beyond. It's Art Month in Lagos. Artists, galleries and visitors from ...

Inside the palace of the high priest of Vodoun in Benin, there is a framed portrait of George Floyd, with Breanna Taylor and Rashad Lewis on either side. Below their images is a line written in red ...

Scientists have found the oldest known drawing in history -- and it looks #familiar. The 73,000-year-old red cross-hatch pattern looks just like a hashtag, also recognizable as the US pound sign, the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook We Write to you about Africa exhibit at the UMMA Jan. 11. Grace Lahti/Daily. Buy this photo. The ...

The Savannah African Art Museum is home to a collection of more than 1,000 pieces of artwork from West and Central Africa. The African art on display here includes a variety of 19th- and 20th-century ...