The painter Tesfaye Urgessa will represent Ethiopia for the country’s first-ever national pavilion at this year’s 60th Venice Biennale, which runs from April 20 until November 24, 2024. His exhibition ...

correctionAn earlier version of this article incorrectly said the Byzantine Empire, Armenia, Coptic Egypt and Ethiopia all shared a common Eastern Orthodox Christianity. The last three churches are ...

Urban life can be a tricky, even precarious, walk across a tightrope, referred to in "Tightrope: Behind the Processor #2," the title of this work by Elias Sime. Recently acquired by the New Orleans ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The Saint Louis Art Museum opened its Currents 118: Elias Sime in ...

Hana Yilma Godine paints women in private moments: in repose on the couch, at the hair salon, preparing for a wedding. The artist, who received her MFA from Boston University in 2020, studied with ...

PARIS, France—Ethiopian artist Julie Mehretu debuted the 20 th BMW Art Car last week in Paris. With her design, Mehretu fused industrial design objects, creating a “performative painting” on the ...

Deep thinking. Given the luxury of time to think–surrounded by the world’s greatest artwork–museum curators find linkages between people and places not readily apparent. Ways of seeing the world ...

Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with The Africa Institute, Global Studies University (GSU), and Sharjah Museums Authority, will present Henok Melkamzer's first international solo exhibition ...

"10. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Gesellschaft Orbis Aethiopicus--in Leipzig vom 24.-26. Juni 2005 in Verbindung mit der 7th International Conference of Ethiopian Art zu Ehren des Nestors des ...

As a child growing up in Ambo, Ethiopia, Netsanet Tesfay recalls sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time, drawing everything her eyes fell upon: pots, pans, a long-necked jebana — or kettle — ...