One of the most intriguing patients at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a fearsome-looking helmet mask from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection. The museum’s Conservation and Arts ...

A fierce, horned mask from Liberia faces a kaleidoscopic video by Jakob Dwight. The old mask seems to watch the screen, transfixed by the morphing shapes and colors. This pairing — part of a big, bold ...

Diala Touré lifts an elaborately carved wooden mask from Sierra Leone from its stand on the mantle of her Roland Park home. “This mask celebrates a women’s coming of age,” she explained to a visitor ...

African masks have always been an important part of cultural and spiritual practices on the continent. These masks are not ...

Erika Witt had been up until 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, making sure that every ceremonial mask, every piece of fragile pottery and every carved wooden figure was perfectly in place. The Southern University ...

An elderly French couple have just lost their case against a second-hand dealer, after parting with a rare African mask that had been gathering dust in their attic. The dealer paid the €150 ($165) for ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is bringing African art to Philly. The plan is for the art to stay permanently. Imani Roach, curator for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Brind Center for African and ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a ...

Gazing about gallerist Javier Peres’s sun-drenched apartment in Berlin’s Schöneberg district, one is struck by the seamless juxtaposition of works by contemporary artists and pieces crafted by African ...