Charles began the tradition of commissioning a tour artist in 1985 when John Ward joined an official trip to Italy at his ...

Denver hosts the first U.S. museum survey of Kent Monkman, a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation whose large paintings are ...

Zimbabwe is the house of stone, both literally and figuratively, with its very name derived from the ancient stone city of ...

The police action on Butere Girls High School drama students will go down in history as one of the most unfortunate assaults against freedom of expression by government forces in Kenya ...

AI has been spreading across different fields, raising a big question: What is the future of art now that machines can ...

In 1995, the conflict between art and politics took a deadly turn when Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha killed writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.In a case of “art mimicking real life”, Saro-Wiwa’s life mirrored that ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley has always had a unique approach to portraiture, and his latest series, A Maze of Power, pushes ...

The political use of art in Kenya dates back to the pre-independence period, when oral poetry and traditional songs were used to preserve memory and critique colonial injustice.