Museum of the African Diaspora Forges Ahead

Even as race-conscious cultural programming is under attack, this San Francisco museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary ...
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Mellon grant will add three new positions and two courses for deep dive into African art

A startingly discovery of stolen art has spawned a new initiative and a significant grant. The University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art is creating three new positions to study the origins of their ...
WHYY

All things African art: Philadelphia Museum of Art plans to build a home for diasporic works

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is bringing African art to Philly. The plan is for the art to stay permanently. Imani Roach, curator for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Brind Center for African and ...
insider.si.edu

Representing Africa in American art museums : a century of collecting and display / edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Christa Clarke

Reviewed by Carol Magee in African arts (Los Angeles) 44 (4) winter 2011, pages 93-94. AFA copy 39088015517063 is gift from Janet Stanley. Contents The Cincinnati Art Museum's Steckelmann Collection: ...
LancasterOnline

Celebrating African American art and artists this Black History Month

Gerri McCritty said she honors Black art and its power to educate and inspire. The 65-year-old native of Liberia features African and Afrocentric artwork at PAVAA Gallery, the 632 N. Christian St. art ...
insider.si.edu

National Museum of African Art Opens Exhibition by Artist Tsedaye Makonnen

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced the exhibition “Tsedaye Makonnen—Sanctuary.” Opening Dec. 13 and remaining an ongoing display, the exhibition features seven sculptures ...

Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern: 'A rich look at a post-colonial art explosion'

A rich look at a post-colonial art explosion' - 3/5 This expansive exhibition at Tate Modern brings together over 50 artists ...
The News-Herald

‘Africa & Byzantium’ at Cleveland Museum of Art examines ‘understudied’ subject

It doesn’t sound as if they had to give her the hard sell. “This was a co-organization between ourselves and our colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York City),” says Dr. Kristen ...
Princeton University

History of Art

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...
Artnet

Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art Names New Leadership Team

John K. Lapiana has been appointed director after a year and a half in an interim role following the abrupt departure of Ngaire Blankenberg. John K. Lapiana, (L), new director of the Smithsonian's ...
NOLA.com

New Orleans Museum of Art faces blowback for hiring white woman as its African art curator

The New Orleans Museum of Art is facing sharp criticism for hiring a white woman to become its new Francoise Billion Curator of African Art rather than hiring a Black person. The museum announced ...