I’m at Art X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair that takes place every November at Victoria Island’s Federal ...

African Textiles in Iowa," a current exhibit at the Stanley Museum of Art, highlights a selection of textiles from a ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The New York Times reports that an exhibition at a Johannesburg art gallery is ...

JOHANNESBURG – South African President Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress sought a court order Tuesday to have a painting depicting the president's genitals removed from an art gallery but ...

Inside the vibrant corridors of Victoria Yards in Johannesburg stands a studio filled with colour, texture and the heartbeat ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

The South African art gallery that displayed an explicit painting of President Jacob Zuma has removed the offending work of art, according to The Times’ World Now blog. The decision was made amid a ...

President Jacob Zuma should have ignored the insult, said Phylicia Oppelt in the Sunday Times (South Africa). But by overreacting, he’s sent half of South Africa to go look at the painting depicting ...