African wood carving is an essential art that has kept the continent's culture alive. This traditional art entails intricate ...

[Photo/VCG] African wood carving enjoys an international reputation of having a bold, passionate and unadorned style. The art of wood carving in China's Zhejiang province, boasting two ...

“The Language of Beauty in African Art” at the Kimbell Art Museum includes ... Curves and zigzags exquisitely carved in wood suggest the area’s small antelopes, but just barely.

As with most Western collections of art from Africa, the one here is made up primarily of wood sculpture. But is this the medium historically most favored in Africa itself? We’ve come to think ...

For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of ...

One of the most alluring artifacts on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Africa & Byzantium” is an image painted on wood that, we are told, is “one of the oldest ...

Chosen to direct the world’s most important art show next year, she leaves a legacy of building institutions, uplifting artists and educating through art.