The first gallery of Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art bears a wall label with a quotation from St. Augustine. He speaks of “the ...

Folk art from Africa and the Pacific changed the modern world by pushing Western artists to be more confrontational, writes Fisun Güner. A small seated figurine from the Vili people of what is ...

East Africa: When It Was Taboo to Eat Your Totem, Uganda Was Truly a 'Green' Society. ... As a study of totems and clans in Uganda, the collection uses realism to convey its message.

Babirye creates her masks and sculptures from wood, ceramics, and found objects. Trained in traditional African art techniques and well-versed in the Bugandan clan histories and historic masks from ...

FULLERTON One of anthropology professor Joseph Nevadomsky’s first assignments at Cal State Fullerton was to catalog and photograph a collection of 27 sacred African tribal totems gifted to the ...

A small Cape Town-based studio has announced the release date for their next title, STASIS: BONE TOTEM. It is a point-and-click-style horror game and will launch on 31st May on Steam and GoG.

As part of our commitment to accessibility and transparency, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art is placing its collection records online. Please note that some records are incomplete ...

Rare Earth Wishbone is one of a series of José Chardiet’s sculptures that fuse African totems with the intense colors and physical energy of Caribbean folk art. The abstract figure wearing a tall ...

Art World Hank Willis Thomas on His New Work, Charlottesville, and Modernism’s Debt to African Art. We spoke to the artist about his upcoming first UK solo exhibition, identity politics, and ...

Located at 270 W. 96th St., African Voices — which calls itself “a soulful collection of art and literature” — is a nonprofit that’s raising funds for the Schomburg exhibit by selling ...

It looks and acts like a totem with a strange African vibe, stretching out its arms to the world. I believe the stacking and layering of colour and materials delivers a totemic quality to the designs.