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The history of African art / Suzanne Preston Blier

AFA copy 39088020440632: Gift from Janet Stanley. "Art historian Suzanne Blier surveys over 150,000 years of African art, set against the changing history of the continent, customs and religions, ...
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art Announces Over $2 Million Gift and Bequeathed Collection of 19th- and 20th-Century African Artworks

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced a donation from former Michigan senator Jack Faxon (1936–2020) ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Groundbreaking New Showcase of Nearly 60 Works Is the Biggest-Ever Exhibition of LGBTQ+ African Art

“I don’t know yet that there is such a thing as African LGBTQ art history,” says curator and author Serubiri Moses. Moses is a co-curator of “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art,” now open at the ...
Forbes

Cincinnati’s Taft Museum Shares First Generation Of Modern African Art To Reach America

“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 ...
9NEWS

Denver art center displays African art to preserve history and educate visitors

DENVER — The Denver Center for African Art has been showing artworks from art collectors around the country to educate others and preserve history. The nonprofit cultural education center shows a ...
VICE

Illuminating the Fighting History of Ancient Africa

In the history of the scholarship of history, we, as academics, have privileged cultures with writing, even though advanced societies existed that relied on oral tradition rather than the written word ...
Boston University

History of African Art and Textiles

The Mugar Library will present an exhibition on African textiles and commemorative cloth, opening spring semester of 2025. This exhibition represents a joint effort between the African Studies Library ...
Observer

Valerie Mercer and the Long Work of Putting African American Art Where It Belongs

Over two decades, Valerie Mercer has built a collection that makes the case that a complete history of American art must include African American artists. Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forbes

The Missing History Of Africa In American Education

What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...