In July of 2007, during a speech at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, then French president Nicolas Sarkozy infamously said: “The tragedy of Africa is that the African ...
During a four-year excavation of an Etruscan well at the ancient Italian settlement of Cetamura del Chianti, a team led by a archaeologist and art historian unearthed artifacts spanning more than 15 ...
Image credit: Border Fragment with Musical Angel, ca. 1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum ...
Critiqued by Risham Majeed in Art bulletin (New York) 103 (1) March 2021, pages 140-146; reviewed by Ingrid Greenfield in African arts (Los Angeles) 53 (3) autumn 2020, pages 91-93 (N1.A258). AFA copy ...
PBS and BBC have teamed on Civilizations, a global nine-part series that tells the story of art from the beginning of human history to the present day, for premiere this spring on PBS. The series was ...