In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...
With the planned creation of new galleries for its Arts of Africa collection, the Brooklyn Museum hopes visitors will see their cultures “represented with dignity.” By Aruna D’Souza The Brooklyn ...
Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor. By Aruna D’Souza The artist Lorraine O’Grady once wrote of her ...
A revealing new study has unveiled the millennia-long history behind the intricate rock paintings at Kakapel, a renowned archaeological site in western Kenya. For decades, the dense overlapping of ...