George Osodi “Untitled” (2008) from the series Devil’s Dexterity, chromogenic print (image courtesy the artist and Z Photographic, ltd., photo by the author for Hyperallergic) For me, The Expanded ...

Prince William NII Nortey Dowuona, 1897. - W&K – Wienerroither & Kohlbacher An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time ...

Iké Udé, b. 1964, Lagos, Nigeria, Genevieve Nnaji, 2014–16, Image: 91.4 x 101.6 cm (36 x 40 in.), Framed: 111.8 x 121.9 x 5.7 cm (44 x 48 x 2 1/4 in.), Pigment on satin rag paper, Collection of the ...

Portraiture and Political Imagination' at MoMA, New York, studies African creativity in photography in front of and behind ...

A self-portrait by South African artist Alexis Preller and a piece from postcolonial Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi described by Sotheby’s as “career-defining,” will lead a sale of modern and ...

For the longest time, "Portrait of Prince William Nie Norte Dowuona," was thought to have been lost. Though Gustav Klimt portrayed the nobleman in 1897, the painting had not been seen since 1938. The ...

It is impossible to imagine the terror that Breonna Taylor must have felt in the few moments before her death, in the hour after midnight on March 13, 2020. Armed men ...

(CNN) — Art history is filled with examples of the powerful and the wealthy communicating their status through portraiture. Not just sovereigns, but military leaders, aristocrats, and champions of ...

A painting by Brett Murray of the South African President has caused outrage among the ANC faithful but the subsequent acts of vandalism raise questions for which there are no easy answers. For ...

It was a painting in the lobby of a Benin hotel last year that changed the way Afrobeats star Mr Eazi thought about art. “I saw this piece by (Benin-based artist) Patricorel of two skeletons sitting ...

THE DURBAR ROOM at Osborne, Queen Victoria’s seaside home on the Isle of Wight, is a tribute to Indian craftsmanship. Created in 1891 by Bhai Ram Singh and Lockwood Kipling from the Mayo School of Art ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time since its recent rediscovery. The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey ...