“Ethiopia at the Crossroads” additionally supports an emphasis being made at the Toledo Museum of Art. “Our engagement with Ethiopian art is relatively recent, but it has quickly become a ...

Art & Exhibitions Ethiopia Names Artist for Its First-Ever National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Tesfaye Urgessa's paintings stand out for their focus on psychologically ambiguous figures in ...

Ethiopia at the Crossroads will feature more than 200 objects—just under half from the museum’s own collection—including ancient stone sculptures, coins, icons, paintings, processional ...

High in the Entoto Mountains, overlooking the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, an ambitious new cultural centre that brings together art, ecology and local building traditions is taking shape.

We started collecting Ethiopian art here at the Walters in the 1990s. We were actually the first to do a major exhibition of Ethiopian art, at all, in the U.S.

In the center of a meditative gallery, artist Tsedaye Makonnen’s seven light towers—made from mirrored boxes featuring the cutout designs of Ethiopian crosses—serve as monuments to lost ...

Omid Memarian (OM): Ethiopian art has a long history, but what has driven the rise of prominent Ethiopian artists on the global stage over the past two decades? Mifta Zeleke (MZ): Ethiopia's strong ...

ADDIS ABABA — An exhibition of paintings of ancient Chinese characters was held on July 13 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, with the aim of enhancing people-to-people and cultural exchanges.

Ethiopian artist Fikru lays bare his emotions on canvas. Addis Ababa (AFP) – With an exuberant flourish, Ethiopian artist Fikru Gebremariam slaps bold streaks of paint across the large canvas ...

As the selected artist for the first-ever Ethiopian Pavilion at a Venice Art Biennale, Tesfaye Urgessa’s commission comes with more than the average amount of pressure.Urgessa, however, is taking it ...

These Seven Stunning Towers Memorialize Lost Black Lives With Mirrors, Light and Ethiopian Cross Designs At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a ...