For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it ...

In July, Senegalese director Hussein Dembel Sow spent two days in Dakar shooting footage of his niece and a local actor for his latest project, a short film about a colorblind girl who undergoes ...

Despite Chinese investment in African green energy and infrastructure projects, comprehensive diplomatic engagements, and joint innovation ventures, tensions between countries grew in certain corners ...

Premiering at Sundance, Antoine Fuqua discusses why the documentary centers the global icon’s own voice. “I wanted people to see him as a human being,” the director said.

"The head is more than the center of the brain and thought; it is the place where the soul lives and must be protected," the artist says.

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 ...

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant ...

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana basketball’s game against Purdue on Tuesday night won’t be the first time Darian DeVries has crossed paths with Matt Painter. They had memorable battles for bragging rights in ...

“Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets” is on view at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia through February 22. Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation Henri Rousseau is primarily known for his vivid, lush ...

A Marlene Dumas painting hammered for $13.6 million during a Christie's sale tonight, making the South African painter the most expensive living female artist at auction. The painting, titled Miss ...