[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 ...

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

“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 ...

“Statuary in Wood by Negro Savages” was, according to its curator, devoted to art from “the Land of Fright.” When African art was not trumpeted as primitive, it was radically decontextualize ...

Folk art from Africa and the Pacific changed the modern ... The carved figure in wood, with its large upturned face, long torso, disproportionately short legs and tiny feet and hands, was ...

Made of wood, plaster and Masonite ... "Does it make a difference that African Americans are working on art made by other African Americans?" "Once they have been lured into the field and really ...

The exhibit showcases ancient and contemporary African art that was inspired by the sun ... 19th to early 20th century. Materials: wood, encrustation. Gift of Walt Disney World Co., a subsidiary ...

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.