Art shows like Art X Lagos and the 1-54 series of African art shows in New York, London and Morocco have also featured contemporary masks or mask images. Artwork by Yusuff Aina Abogunde. Yusuff ...

African masquerade ensembles are recognizably carnivalesque, yet not aligned with Carnival as we know it. The exquisite, ...

There's more to African masks than you might think, suggests a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" combines traditional creations with contemporary ...

In the art of Africa, the mask is a versatile, multipurpose facade. It may signify identity and the ancestors, politics and medicine or the invisible world of the spirits. And in whatever form a ma… ...

Seattle Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Disguise: Masks & Global African Art,” reinvigorates historical masks from the museum’s collection by showing them with contemporary work by 24 ...

The precise moment when African art ceased being mere artifact and became “art” in the Western sense can be dated. It occurred in 1907, when the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso incorporated ...

"Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" is an exhibition about identity, which is unremarkable when questions of identity have been front and center for artists for more than a quarter-century.

The Language of African Art ... The exhibition features some 220 objects—masks, sculptures, architectural elements, jewelry and more—from over 65 different peoples in West, ...

There's more to African masks than you might think, suggests a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" combines traditional creations with contemporary ...