Showing African Works as They Were Intended
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art has succeeded in restoring the vivacity of African art in a mainstream museum setting.
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The excellent show at the International Center of Photography focuses on contemporary artists who deliberately examine racial myths and constructs.
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âPrayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptychâ at the National Gallery of Art brings art historians and art conservators together in a project that is part salvage mission and part detective story.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade. Similar observances have since spread around the world.
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A number of African leaders last week used the second African Traditional Medicine Day (31 August) to confirm their commitment to national efforts aimed at ensuring the safety, efficacy and quality of traditional medicines.
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All image sources are here, as well as credit information. And captions for several of them.
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By Urry, James  AMIRIA HENARE, Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xix + 323. ISBN 0- 521-83591-7. Pounds 48.00, $80.00 (hardback).
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A show at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents some odd (but fascinating) examples of serial photography.
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Martin Puryearâs sculptures, as seen at the Museum of Modern Art, balance between the geometric and the organic with Zen aplomb.
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The Art Institute of Chicago has exhibition of the art of the ancient civilizations of the Midwest and Southeast of the US.
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Fashion designers are coming up with unique theme to create their range of collection.
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A glimpse into the cast of Flavours.
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African doctors educated and trained in Western institutions have been ardently urged to respect and promote African traditional medicine, which are still relevant in the medical world despite the giant strides made by Western medicinal science.
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The Red campaign to fight H.I.V./AIDS in Africa had focused on branding everyday consumer products. On Thursday night at Sotheby's, the campaign turned to a high-end art world.
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South Africa is scouring  the globe to recover lost works by black artists that depict  the turbulent apartheid era in a drive to educate young people  about the struggle against white rule.
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Reader Sameer Shaikh sends us a picture.