An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly ...

Bronze, or Artists' Choice. People's Choice is announced at the end of the viewing week. During the second half of the championships, the viewing week, spectators can enter the area and witness the ...

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George Etheredge for The New York Times Towering over the middle of the hall is Nick Cave’s new bronze sculpture “Amalgam (Origin),” a barefoot figure wrapped in flowers and leaves that ...

The bronze sculpture had been bequeathed to Bryanston in 1975 by a former governor, but its provenance had been forgotten, until now. The private school, in Blandford Forum, said it would auction ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

OUIDAH, Benin (AP ... is to come back and live their culture, art and spirituality for those who practice Voodoo,” said Houetchenou. The festival gained popularity over the years from within and ...

Bronze canoe stolen as part of public artwork ... method by a group of Aboriginal community members led by Worimi canoe-maker Luke Russell. The sculpture also included castings of actual flathead fish ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...

The African Women in Art Award (AWAA), a competition for women artists from Sub-Saharan African countries, has unveiled its list of winners. This year, the theme of the competition, “Mother Africa,” ...

OUIDAH, Benin — As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the gods and spirits that are evident all around the arena ...

Among the first to pledge to restitute Benin bronzes to Nigeria ... artefacts with his declaration in Burkina Faso that “African heritage can’t just be in European private collections and ...