An exhibition devoted to the African-American abstract painter highlights his energetic forms, tense lines and subtle ...

Another popular storytelling style in African children's art is depicting scenes from everyday life. These scenes usually ...

It makes sense then that while his work is a contemporary response to traditional African art, he isn’t looking to offer answers or explanations. Instead, Audu lets his abstract art speak for ...

“Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis” is a truly revelatory exhibition devoted to an African-American artist who was involved with the emergent Abstract Expressionist scene and has been ...

One major issue in consideration for me as a black and African man trying to take over the abstract contemporary art scene is the fact that not many people that look like me are in those spaces.

demonstrating that African Americans could hold their own in the abstract genre at a time when they were under public pressure to produce figurative art describing the black experience.

gave the city its latest piece of signature public art, "United We Stand," a monumental and jazzy abstract sculpture unveiled in July outside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

“It’s always exciting to place African contemporary art in a contextually different environment, beyond its origin,” he says. The works in the show include figurative and abstract paintings ...

Portraiture remains popular, but there has been a significant rise in abstract art in Ghana over the last two years. “While we may not yet be at the level of South Africa or Nigeria, the growth ...