Seattle Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Disguise: Masks & Global African Art,” reinvigorates historical masks from the museum’s collection by showing them with contemporary work by 24 ...

Art shows like Art X Lagos and the 1-54 series of African art shows in New York, London and Morocco have also featured contemporary masks or mask images. Artwork by Yusuff Aina Abogunde. Yusuff ...

An antiques dealer who sold a rare African mask for $4.6 million won a ... When the 88-year-old man and his 81-year-old wife ... as the dealer himself was no expert on African art, ...

There's more to African masks than you might think, suggests a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" combines traditional creations with contemporary ...

Unfortunately, it is not an older example of African tribal art, he explained. “This is a more modern piece, probably made about the time you bought it,” the appraiser told Black at the event.

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 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to the collection, conservation, study and exhibition of Africa’s arts across time and media. The ...