South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by ...

As the art market roared back in 2021, one segment has taken off with particular intensity: ultra-contemporary African art. Figurative paintings by artists from Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria ...

The new High Museum of Art exhibition “Ezrom Legae: Beasts” shines a light on the South African artist who addressed apartheid's institutionalized racism.

Contemporary artist Gavin Jantjes evokes South African cave paintings in this untitled work. Image courtesy of the African Art Museum. Upon entering the African Art Museum’s new exhibition ...

A missing painting known as the “African Mona Lisa” broke records after reportedly selling for more than $1.6 million. The artwork “Tutu” was created by Ben Enwonwu during the aftermath of ...

Rare Alexis Preller and Mohamed Melehi Paintings Lead Sotheby’s African Art Auction. By. Geoff Nudelman. March 20, 2024 12:35 pm ET Order Reprints Print Article ...

In 2023, an Austrian couple brought a photo of a dusty, crudely framed painting into the Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Gallery in Vienna and claimed that the artwork had been painted by Gustav Klimt.

The biggest art fair in West Africa draws artists and curators alike to build on the success of African art in the ... Visitors make their way through a sprawl of paintings, prints, moving-image ...