Growing up near the village of Sangha on Mali's Bandiagara Escarpment, Amahigueré Dolo always felt compelled to make art. How could he not? He lived in the heart of Dogon country, which is famous for ...
PARIS (Reuters) - With its full beard and elongated breasts, worn smooth by the hands of thousands of women praying for fertility, an androgynous wooden statue is the centrepiece of a new Paris show ...
The Dogon people of Mali are famous for their unique sculptures, which are a blend of cultural significance and artistic ...
– After Mali became independent, Western dealers scoured the country in search of objets d’art. Some of these works, acquired under opaque conditions, are now worth several million euros. – We have ...
An exhibition of Dogon art from Mali has just opened at the Quai Branly museum in Paris. The largest exhibition in 20 years, it brings together more than 300 sculptures, masks and everyday objects all ...
Anthony Sattin's recent and lively history The Gates of Africa is the wrong read for anyone heading to Timbuktu: hardly any of his intrepid-explorer characters get back alive, and as we pressed on in ...
NEW YORK - From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the ...
A DUCK'S bill, rodent legs, a crustacean pincer, rusting scrap metal, strings of small coloured beads, bird feathers, threads of plant seeds, a tiny terracotta pot, dangling cowrie shells, all bound ...
Summary: Stylistic analysis of African art assumes change over time: traits or characteristics of objects, which constitute style, persist or disappear or may recur later ("disjunction"). De Grunne ...