African masquerade ensembles are recognizably carnivalesque, yet not aligned with Carnival as we know it. The exquisite, ...

Ajanku has been an artist for her entire life. “I sat at the knees of my quilt-making grandmother,” Ajanku said. “My other grandmother was a crochet hobbyist. Those are the hands that formed ...

The DIA's Center for African American Art, established in 2000, organized the reinstallation. This marks the first phase of a larger renovation of the museum's second-floor North Wing.

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity ...

The Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity" of the past and looking to the present ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, above, will open the exhibit “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California” on June 8.

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When the Museum of Black Civilizations opened in Dakar, Senegal, in December 2018, it was celebrated across the African and global art communities for many reasons. First, it was a sigh of relief that ...

The Museum of African American History, which operates locations in Boston and Nantucket, was notified of the cuts late Wednesday night, according to museum president and CEO Noelle Trent.

The president of the state’s Museum of African American History, which has locations in Boston and on Nantucket, is worried about the president’s call to reframe history.

From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by showing other institutions how to build their own storytelling ...