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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exhibition documents Addis Ababa’s fading neighborhoods through watercolor and acrylic. An acrylic painting measuring 1.3 meters by 1.8 meters greets visitors at the entrance of ...

Hana Yilma Godine, "Hair salon in Addis Ababa #2" (2021), fabric and oil on canvas, 60 x 80 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Fridman Gallery) There’s a world away from war, politics, or ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — The Barack Obama Presidential Center is coming together piece by piece on the city’s South Side and a new towering installation by a world-renowned artist has just been announced. A ...

Wong Chuk Hang is fast becoming one of the city’s most happening and artsy districts. Hidden inside all these industrial buildings and factories are a blooming community of art galleries, art studios, ...