IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This mask represents a beautiful ...

Baule mask Ivory Coast wood height: 43 in. (109 cm.) base by wood artist Kichizô Inagaki (1876–1951) (image courtesy Christie’s) Popularly known as the “Krugier-Picasso mask,” a 19th century West ...

As a young girl growing up in southeastern San Diego’s Shelltown neighborhood, Denise Rogers spent time flipping through the pages of Time and Life magazines her mother kept on their coffee table. At ...

Between the 1930s and the 1970s, German ethnologist Hans Himmelheber journeyed across Ivory Coast amassing a collection of ...

African Mosaic, the newest exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, includes modern and contemporary, popular and traditional works. Host Michel Martin speaks with ...

Millimeters-thick sheets of delicately etched bronze. Pleated, laser-cut coral collars. This isn’t haute couture, though it could be. These are face masks. Nigeria-based architectural designer Tosin ...

The University of the Virgin Islands’ Reichhold Center for the Arts has installed an exhibit of African masks from the university’s African Art Collection at the Fort Christian Museum on St. Thomas as ...

Story by Anya Martin. Photos by Jenni Girtman. In 1985, while visiting an art school in Dakar, Senegal, Jean-Patrick Guichard was captivated by the work of young artist Cheikh Tidiane Kéïta. As a ...

Paris, France (CNN) — When an elderly couple held a garage sale after selling their second home in the south of France, little did they know they would become embroiled in a legal battle with millions ...