One of this year’s most exciting art exhibitions in metro Detroit is currently on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts — and there’s less than a month left to see it. The 60-year career of ...

During the colonial period, the camera became something of an imperial device, as Western images defined narratives about the history, culture, and identity of the African continent. Now, in its first ...

March is here, and with it comes new exhibits, celebrations, and sure signs of spring. Fitchburg Art Museum recently opened “Africa Rising,” the inaugural exhibition of its new collection of ...

At first glance, British Vogue’s February cover might seem jarring to some; the shadowy tableau of nine dark-skinned Black women, stone-faced and stiffly posed, almost evokes the feeling of mannequins ...

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The last large survey exhibition of African photography by a major western gallery was In/Sight at the Guggenheim ...

Hand-woven and dyed fabrics, elaborate gold and beaded jewelry, women with hennaed hands and feet, and military men in suits fill the work of photographer Seydou Keïta (1921–2001), the subject of a ...

Africa's fashion industry has got a new star in a 17-year-old Chadian model after a long search The competition featured 16 talented contestants, and a Kenyan model featured in the top six The beauty ...

Tinashe Mushakavanhu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has purchased a groundbreaking collection of images by some of history’s earliest Black photographers. Pictures from the first African ...