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Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Arts, Dakar Biennale. African Arts, African artists, Senegalese artists, theGrio.com
December 4, 2024
For the artistic and cultural elites of Senegal, the monthlong Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Arts is a celebratory moment.
September 15, 2022
The east wing of the Humboldt Forum is displaying dozens of Benin Bronzes that were stolen in Africa during colonial…
Samuel Fosso
August 10, 2022
The photographer becomes more than a dozen 20th-century freedom leaders for a new exhibit at The Menil Collection in Houston. 
May 4, 2022
"It's really important that we provide leadership," the Smithsonian Institution's Lonnie G. Bunch III told The New York Times.
October 17, 2021
One of the pieces of artwork known as the Benin bronzes will be returned to Nigeria after being stolen years…
October 9, 2021
French president Emmanuel Macron says the country will return 26 pieces of African art to Benin to try to right…
Tutu Ben Enwonwu thegrio.com
March 1, 2018
Top news for March 1, 2018 includes the sale of the "African Mona Lisa," Trump losing yet another communications director,…
November 30, 2012
Arthur Walther,64, is a German-American art collector who started collecting art and photography in the early 1990's in China. Following…