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Remember the African Art that was being stored in a Harris County maintenance shed by Commissioner Rodney Ellis at the ...
While the contemporary African art market's dollar value remains small compared to other regions, it has experienced remarkable growth in the past decade with ultra-contemporary art pieces by ...
New "Heirs of Slavery" group launched in U.K. 05:44 Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in ...
Cory Gundlach, curator of African art at the Stanley Museum of Art, speaks about Ndop (display cloth), a Cameroon grassfields style from the early to mid-20th century made of cotton and indigo dye.
A planned sale of a mysterious collection of around 1,400 African art pieces that was planned for Thursday (April 4) morning in Houston, was called off at the last minute after the works’ owner ...
Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few ...
This piece of art is part of a collection owned by Sam Njunuri that has been stored at 6464 Savoy Dr. A man named Garaba Konte claimed in an August 2023 affidavit filed in court that he owns 180 ...
More than 600 African art pieces donated to Sacramento State are helping students look into the past and retrieve parts of African culture to share with future generations. The student-led Sankofa ...
The world’s most famous collection of African art arrived in Britain after a spectacular act of colonial violence. In February 1897, an expeditionary force of 1,200 British soldiers and African ...
Thousands of African art pieces are going up for sale this week after years of controversy tying the huge collection to Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis. The auction of 1,200 art pieces ...
When the country gained independence, in 1960, the British-created museum in Lagos was endowed with hundreds of important art pieces, including some 90 from Benin.