A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for R245 million at auction, setting a new record for a living ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism ...

Expressive brushstrokes depict a man seated at a table, his face hidden behind a book of Japanese prints, a plastic chair in ...

But the recent discovery of 200-year-old rock paintings found in South Africa now has scientists hypothesizing ... The discovery of rock art dated to between 1821 and 1835 adds even more credence ...

The fact that Klimt’s historic portrait of an African prince survived for so long — and that it’s the only Klimt painting on the market today — makes it especially desirable among art ...

What is known is that the painting was made by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region ... depicted in their rock art. What’s often overlooked, though, is ...

The artist who rose to fame with her conceptual photography receives a show focused on a different but no less engaging part ...

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species ... Julien Benoit adds: "The painting was made in 1835 at the latest, which means this dicynodont ...

An oil painting of an African prince created by the Austrian ... was first displayed at the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands, this past Thursday and already has several ...

Half-human, half-bird However, the image does not simply depict an African rail, and this hints at a spiritual dimension to the purpose of the painting. Often San rock art images take the form of ...

ATLANTA – A black female model leans on a stool atop a platform in a second-story studio in the city's historic arts district. She is nude, stoic and motionless. A half-dozen students ...