Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...

In 1897, British troops looted thousands of pieces of culturally significant art, which came to reside in private and public collections, including this cooper plaque (detail) now held at the ...

In Ghanaian artist El Anatsui's large installations, metallic reds, silvers and golds weave like flowing tapestries. Advertisement Article continues below this ad On exhibit "El Anatsui" When: Through ...

But here at Tate Modern, her focus is African Modernism and Afro-Surrealism - movements she says are rarely spotlighted in major Western galleries. "Artists of African descent have often been maligned ...

Yes, there are more important things in the world than Taylor Swift videos. No, we do not have to be outraged over everything. But when one of the most powerful and influential artists in contemporary ...

IT IS A magnificently bizarre hybrid. Still officially called the Royal Museum for Central Africa, but better known as the Africa Museum, it cannot help but ooze colonial triumphalism, despite recent ...

Orient or France? nineteenth-century debates -- Renoir and impressionist Orientalism -- A society for Orientalists -- Orientalists in the public eye -- Colonial panoramania -- Traveling scholarships ...