Whether sequestered behind glass in a museum or sold to tourists along Fifth Avenue, the African mask is an image from the non-Western world that we are all familiar with. Yet walking though the ...

“Disguise: Masks and Global African Art” is an exhibition about identity, which is unremarkable when questions of identity have been front and center for artists for more than a quarter-century. What ...

Kimbell Art Museum is growing its collection of African sculptures with two new acquisitions from one of the largest private collections in the world. The Fort Worth museum acquired “Reliquary ...

It seems no museum collection is complete without a few token African masks. Many of us have glimpsed them walking between exhibits, but few of us know what role they actually play to the many ...

A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple claimed ...

CENTER TWP. — His fingertips gently caress grooves and ridges chiseled into the hard, mahogany wood. He gazes reverently at the intricately carved mask. To Larry Tyson, it’s more than artwork. It ...

Heritage is both natural and cultural. The removal of Tanzania’s great Brachiosaurus skeleton and the extraction of ritual masks and reliquaries from Mali, Gabon and Cameroon reveal a pattern: ...