Often disregarded in the world of fine arts, traditional crafts are at the heart of this year's Also Known as Africa (AKAA) art fair in Paris. For its tenth edition, the celebration of contemporary ...

An ancient elk gazes into the distance from the steep shoreline cliff of Lake Yövesi. The autumn day is sunny, but very windy ...

My first real foray into the world of rock art was as a field researcher in the early 1990s looking for sites where hunter-gatherer artists left their mark. I became an apprentice to my uncle, Ginger ...

Unique, prehistoric rock art drawings have been discovered in the Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar. I was part of a team that discovered and described these ancient treasures. They’re the first ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Marbella, Spain, unearthing a stone with ancient engravings on its face that could rewrite the history of prehistoric art. The find suggests that ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Dunbar Historic Neighborhood Association (DHNA) has proudly announced the return of the 11th Annual Paul Laurence Dunbar Community Festival. However, this year the festival has ...

San artists in South Africa painted a strange creature on a rock wall nearly 200 years ago. New research shows this horned serpent from the 1800s likely came from fossils of a beast that died out over ...

A nearly 200-year-old rock painting, long a source of mystery in the mountains of South Africa, may depict a creature that vanished from the Earth more than 200 million years ago, according to new ...

The rock art is near Nefud desert of northern Saudi Arabia Camels, ibex, gazelles, wild donkeys and aurochs depicted Sept 30 (Reuters) - About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe ...

Lisa Jackson isn’t going to let the threat of erasure stop her from telling Black stories. The Savannah African Art Museum has become a reservoir of heritage since its opening in 2017. Inside a ...

A new theory credits medieval Catalan art as Picasso’s inspiration for the iconic "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," but art historians are pushing back. Two people view Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles ...

“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations,” New Orleans Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 264 pages. The New Orleans Museum of Art’s New African Masquerades exhibition, ...