Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor. By Aruna D’Souza The artist Lorraine O’Grady once wrote of her ...

The massive Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, co-presented with museums in Barcelona and Brussels, will head to Europe after March 30. 🎧 Click the red listen button to hear WBEZ’s interview with ...

Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic breakthroughs are finally pulling back the curtain on migrations and “ghost ...

Nancy and Robert J. Carney Postdoctoral Associate in Art History, Rice University The sudden death of the Cameroon-born curator Koyo Kouoh, at the age of 57 and at the height of her career, has shaken ...

“Is it stealing to take back what was stolen?” That’s the question asked in the trailer for “Relooted,” a video game in which players form a crew and plan a heist to reclaim real-life African ...

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 ...

Painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and animation are part of engaging Carlos Museum exhibition through Dec. 14. Installation view of "Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the ...