Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

As the global art world splintered across multiple destinations in early February, Marrakech and 1-54 quietly asserted their relevance.

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

The Walter and Linda Evans Gallery of African American Art opens Feb. 6, 2025, at Telfair Academy in Savannah, featuring 28 donated works and marking a historic shift for the museum.

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence erupted in Europe ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

Tucked away on the sprawling Wits campus in central Johannesburg is the Origins Centre, a hidden gem of a museum and art gallery that takes visitors on a journey through Africa’s incredibly rich and ...

The Sarr-Savoy report, commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron, estimated that roughly 90,000 objects from sub-Saharan Africa sit in France’s public collections – around 70,000 of them at ...

A Massachusetts artist creates unsettling clay sculptures inspired by late 90s and early 2000s animation. Oona Chaplin says she thought about dropping her famous last name Ethiopia continues executing ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...