The Center for African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts was the first department of its kind in the nation when it was founded in 2000. Seven years later, the museum opened its first ...

Drawn from the CBH Bank Collection, More than Meets the Eye charts the evolution of African and African diaspora art from ...

Emmanuel Item has tattooed hundreds of people with designs that draw deeply on his Nigerian heritage, connecting people in the diaspora with African culture.

High tech is coming to the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture in a big way. After four years in the making, the center’s digital arts studio is now open to the public. Center ...

East African masterpieces stole the show at Nairobi’s Art Auction, with collectors spending ...

Journal of Design History, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2015), pp. 293-315 (23 pages) This article offers a broad historical overview of the development of graphic design in South Africa and an analysis of a ...

A-list designer Julian Smith takes SA creativity to fashion in a collaboration with Art Eye Gallery to create wearable art.

About 1,400 pieces of African art, which once were in the possession of Harris County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis, were set to be sold Thursday morning as part of a nearly $990,000 court ...

Digital insurance platform Naked has found a unique way to spotlight the causes and charities it supports through The Naked Difference. It has selected eight South African visual artists to create ...

For our Best of Dallas 2025 issue, celebrating banned books, we spoke with some of the players in Dallas’ book world, including Akwete Tyehimba from Pan-African Connection. Check back for our ...

There is a new graphic novel commemorating the life of Nigerian superstar musician Fela Kuti. The book, titled Fela: Music Is The Weapon, is by Toronto-based authors Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor ...