“Disguise: Masks and Global African Art” is an exhibition about identity ... Frequently, sophisticated digital programs are also brought into play. We might think of African masks as artifacts ...

From social media to street art, masks are cropping up everywhere. Deborah Nicholls-Lee finds images around the world reflecting what’s going on now. A profile picture with a covered mouth ...

Yinka Shonibare, in a New York show, uses African styles and traditions to highlight their integral role in the foundation of modern art. By Laura ... of African ritual masks.Credit ...

Nosa Creatives Gallery Contemporary African art shows and museums are taking notice of the resurgence in masks as an art form. The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Marrakech ...

digital heritage specialist and co-founder of Open Restitution Africa (ORA), tells The Art Newspaper. She points out the tendency to elevate Western narratives. “If France decides to give ten ...

Even by the 1980s, with the museum’s notorious “‘Primitivism’ in 20th Century Art,” the African masks and statues ... which in these depressed days of digital-identity essentialism ...

print on rice paper, gift of Mr. George A. Naifeh, collection of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Note: Digital press kit is available through Dropbox.

A street where one could easily overlook the site of a large collection of African artwork. The African Art Museum of the SMA ... and holds artwork including masks, woodwork, tapestries and ...