African art, admired in the U.S. and Europe as a rich creative tradition, has always had to fight for recognition in its own backyard. To the natives who practiced it, it was less art for ...

Since the documentary’s cameras stopped rolling, plans for a new museum to showcase the treasures have stalled, and the ...

The film restores the agency of the objects at the heart of the Dahomey restitution case by transforming them into a living ...

The most intriguing viewpoint comes from one of the objects itself, a carved sculpture of a person (possibly a king) made of ...

You make up your own mind what to think.” Hew Locke’s voice arrives like a whisper out of nowhere, emanating from speakers ...

Castro’s exhibit of abstract figurative wood sculptures, “Origins,” is on display at the Boston Sculptors Gallery’s Launchpad until Nov. 3. The exhibit is featured in the front windows of the gallery ...

According to some historians, legend has it that a fisherman found the statue of the Black Christ wrapped in a “cayuco,” or ...

She came to Pittsburgh twice with, as I remember, a concert of solo pieces influenced by her anthropological studies in ...

This award-winning documentary from the director of 'Atlantics' asks: Who owns a colonized culture, the invaders or its ...

The French Senegalese director passed on big-budget Hollywood projects before making her latest film—a fantastical ...

The Detroit Police Department is investigating after a statue of a legendary Tuskegee Airmen was stolen from a city park.

Two churches, across the centuries. Generations after their birth in this nation first envisioned in Philadelphia, both ...