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

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

Nigerian artist John Madu's exhibition 'Paint Your Path' is the first solo exhibition by an African artist at Amsterdam's Van ...

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 ...

The Art Institute of Chicago’s ... beads and other accessories that allude to East African Maasai culture. And then, surrounding him in this painting, are these references to Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...