Locals in Altos, Paraguay celebrated the Kamba Ra’anga festival on Monday with fire, dancing and traditional costumes. View ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of ...

Mallen, E. (2025) Pablo Picasso’s 1906-1907 Transformation: from the “Primitive” to the “Rational”. Advances in Historical ...

“This was the establishment’s first renovation in 30 years,” Dr. Vanessa Thaxton-Ward said. “It gives us the opportunity to showcase more of our collection, and how rich our legacy is.” ...

Rough, simple, and ‘primitive’ nature, this period marked a sharp break away from the European classical tradition of realism and sought to capture an element of savagery. The initial and most ...

The Mask, The Myth, The Legend The origins of Jonkonnu are still shrouded in mystery. Some attribute the name to John Conney, a celebrated cabocero (chief) at Tres Puntas in Axim on the Guinea coast.

Europeans viewed African systems of thought, computation, storytelling, record keeping, and religion as inferior, and Europe came to know itself in contrast to the fictions it told about Africa ...

Many Indigenous masks were kept in storage by Heye and sold off to raise funds via the Third Avenue gallery of dealer Julius Carlebach, a “speciali [st] in primitive and ancient art” per his ...

In Masks From Six Continents, a public art commission for the Washington, DC, Metro Center, that she completed in 1990, Abad produced mask paintings representing Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa ...

Elderly French Couple Lose Court Case Over Rare African Mask Worth $4.6 Million The rare Ngil mask, crafted by the Fang people of Gabon, is thought to be one of approximately 10 in existence ...