A Celebration of African Art” is the first of several Fitchburg Art Museum Centennial exhibitions featuring works of art from the museum’s Permanent ...

Kenya is not only a cradle of humanity, it is also a cradle of symbolic culture, beauty practice, and ornament innovation.

The former Paralympic and Olympic athlete rose to international prominence in the early 2000s, breaking world records as a double-amputee sprinter. Pistorius' legs were amputated below the knee after ...

Tracing an engraved ostrich eggshell fragment, normalizing the lines according to stable visual properties, and extracting key variables provides the quantitative data needed to reveal the structured ...

Things came to a head in November, when protesters stormed a glitzy preview event for officials and foreign guests. The intruders, echoing the oba, demanded that the museum be suspended pending an ...

Tucked away on the sprawling Wits campus in central Johannesburg is the Origins Centre, a hidden gem of a museum and art gallery that takes visitors on a journey through Africa's incredibly rich and ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display ...

If you want to know who’s on the rise in live music, The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) just dropped its annual cheat sheet of the most exciting up and coming artists of the past year.

The City’s first and only gallery dedicated to contemporary Pan-African Art will open next month. Gallerist Craig Mark and artist Clint Strydom will open the Art of Contemporary Africa Feb. 12 at ...

The University of Arkansas School of Art and the Windgate Foundation are enhancing how educational institutions support artists beyond graduation. Through continued investment from the Windgate ...

Phillis Wheatley in the Boston Women’s Memorial. Credit: ckilger, CC-BY-NA-2.0 / Flickr In 1761, Phillis Wheatley, a young West African girl, was captured and brought to America on a slave ship. There ...