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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

For the Inkygoodness' Character Totem Home coming' exhibition in Birmingham, UK, 19-30 July 2011, Am I Collective has responded to its invitation by creating 'Maconini Abaphansi'.

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 ...

Hunter-gatherer rock art in Southern Africa is made up both of paintings and engravings, which were produced by ancient communities associated with the present-day San (bushmen) culture.

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.