An Oxford University museum has been criticised for withholding images of an African mask to stop women seeing it due to a tribe's beliefs.. The Pitt Rivers Museum has labelled many of its ...

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 ...

To them, African art was wild, African depictions were abstract, and African masks were made of wood. British Museum curator Chris Spring says the discovery changed Western ideas of African art.

“The British Museum is the kid at school that everybody’s decided to mess with and bully,” said Bonnie Greer, a Chicago-born playwright and journalist, in an email. Ms.

South African artist Esther Mahlangu's collaboration with BMW is on show at the 'South Africa: art of a nation' exhibition, which runs until February 26 at the British Museum in London.

The forthcoming Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, is sitting atop a treasure trove of cultural heritage. Valuable archaeological remains from the former Kingdom of ...

The Brooklyn Museum in New York is looking to fill in the gaps with its new exhibition, Disguise: Masks and Global African Art. “Masks have long been used by African artists to define ...