African mask art is an important cultural expression that showcases the wide-ranging identities and traditions across the continent ...

From masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings masks ...

The art of mask carving comprises techniques that have been preserved for centuries. Using tools such as chisels and knives, ...

Even as it imports important artworks from international and U.S. institutions, such as those showcased in its current major exhibitions from the Louvre in Paris and Wyoming’s Buffalo Bill Center of ...

One of the most intriguing patients at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a fearsome-looking helmet mask from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection. The museum’s Conservation and Arts ...

“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations,” New Orleans Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 264 pages. The New Orleans Museum of Art’s New African Masquerades exhibition, ...

Gazing about gallerist Javier Peres’s sun-drenched apartment in Berlin’s Schöneberg district, one is struck by the seamless juxtaposition of works by contemporary artists and pieces crafted by African ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is bringing African art to Philly. The plan is for the art to stay permanently. Imani Roach, curator for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Brind Center for African and ...

2000-10-05 04:00:00 PDT Paris-- Visitors to the Louvre could always peruse galleries of Old Master paintings. They could pause on the grand marble staircase crowned by the Winged Victory of Samothrace ...