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Pam McClusky, SAM's curator of African and Oceanic art, worked with a team of 15 African art scholars -- nearly all from Africa -- to root the art in its African context.

I walked into the Gallery of African Art (GAFRA) on London’s Cork Street in Mayfair two weeks ago. Opposite the Burlington Arcade, right at the heart of the art establishment, on gallery row ...

About five years ago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art determined that only 11 percent of the artists with works in its collection — those identified by name, as opposed to ...

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture ...

Officials have scheduled the sale of an African art collection once stored in a warehouse in Sunnyside by a Harris County commissioner for July 25.

Women have not only shattered the glass ceiling at the region’s art museums, they are influencing the shows that are mounted, the artists who are commissioned, and the people who are hired.

The New Orleans Museum of Art has sparked outrage over its decision to hire a white woman as its new curator of African art -- citing her “breadth of experience” in the field -- rather than a ...

She will be the first African woman to curate the Biennale. In a telephone interview from Miami, where she is attending the Art Basel fair, Kouoh, 56, said she was “ecstatic” about the ...