and two figures with masks–depict scenes of daily and ceremonial life. Check out the slideshow for six more examples of African sculpture. See more images and works here. The extended deadline ...

One of Mr. Kéré’s favorite examples of African mask-making is a hawk mask in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art that he describes as “very simple but very powerful.” Probably dating ...

The Chokwe people of southern Africa have lived for hundreds of years on the vast savannah at the juncture of Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. Renowned as prolific, skilled ...

The third mask has horns and a very crusty surface.” Milbourne has chosen to open the exhibition with an example of contemporary African art that uses red, white and black to comment on present ...

Georges Braque and Henri Matisse — to give three examples of groundbreaking, modernist artists — avidly collected African masks and textiles. African items were something of a craze in early ...

The mask is best of its type with a brilliant ... and with particularly rich selections of works by Picasso and exceptional examples of African art. Born in Radom, Poland, Krugier survived the ...

Serving, in retrospect, as an early indication of the diverse cultures African masks are often purported ... of an exclusively male tradition — for example, by parading costumed women through ...

a large wooden mask measuring 2 ½ feet tall, is a good example of the quality work coming out of Africa at the time, DuMouchelle said. Unfortunately, it is not an older example of African tribal ...

The Museum of East Texas is currently displaying African masks and artifacts on loan from the Michelson Museum of Art until April 15. Approximately a year and a half ago, MET executive director John ...

The stage musical adaptation of “The Lion King” famously employs complex masks (designed by Julie Taymor and Michael Curry) to represent African animals in a uniquely abstract, stylized way.