“African art.” American audiences for generations have been conditioned to connect that phrase with items like wood carvings, masks, and shields. The “African art” galleries at most museums are full ...

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DETROIT – One of the oldest and most complete collections of African American art in the nation just got a major upgrade - and you can see it now at Detroit’s world-class art museum. The Center for ...

A new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts possesses roughly 65,000 artworks. One of them, a black ash top hat referencing Anishinaabe treaties created by Kelly Church and donated by a collector to the DIA in 2020 ...

In 2004, Danielle Burns traveled to the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania to study East African and contemporary art. That was the beginning of something great. Burns came to St. Louis last year ...

Last week, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) acquired “Bird” (1990), a striking sculpture by David Hammons, the MacArthur Genius Grant-winning African American artist known for his witty conceptual ...

It’s always something of a risk for an institution like the Saint Louis Art Museum to invite someone like Kellie Jones to speak, as SLAM did to kick off Black History Month and two current shows of ...

Editor's Note: This article was produced in collaboration with Essay'd, a platform for art writing, curating, and research in Detroit, and funded through a feature writing grant from Michigan ...

"Published on the occasion of two simultaneously displayed exhibitions: 'Point of View: African American Art Masters from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection' at the Charles H. Wright Museum of ...