African art museums, Sub-Saharan African artists, art galleries and organizations, the history of art
A guide to websites
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Art history; ancient African art
African art history resources on the web.
A comprehensive web index by Chris Witcombe.
African Art
Thematic Essays (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
African Christianity in Ethiopia
African Influences in Modern Art
African Lost-Wax Casting: Bronze, Copper, and Brass
African Lost-Wax Casting: The Tada Figure
African Rock Art of the Central Zone
African Rock Art of the Northern Zone
African Rock Art of the Southern Zone
African Rock Art: Tassili-n-Ajjer (?8000 B.C. –?)
African Rock Art: The Coldstream Stone
The Age of Iron in West Africa
Apollo 11 (ca. 25,500–23,500 B.C.) and Wonderwerk (ca. 8000 B.C.) Cave Stones
Art and the Fulani/Fulbe People
Arts of Power Associations in West Africa
Arts of the San People in Nomansland
Images from The African Studies Center. University of Pennsylvania
G. I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture
ArtSite Africa
An online guide to the art of Africa. A searchable database of African art resources, including blogs, artists, museums, exhibits, events, sculpture and crafts.
Events and festivals
Festivals and events listed by country.
Africa Guide
African Adventure Tour
Adventour. Find your African Safari whether it be in Namibia, Botswana or South Africa.
Dak’Art Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Senegal
Classical Art of Sub-Saharan Africa
A history with examples, from The World History of Art.
Mji wa Huruma village, Nairobi, Kenya:
the first slum on the internet! Hamjambo!
Index on Africa
A comprehensive guide, searchable by country and subject, from The Norwegian Council for Africa. The Norwegian Council for Africa is a solidarity organization which sees dissemination of information as its most important tool in its contribution towards justice and development in and for Africa.
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Adrinkra.Western African symbols and meanings.
Adinkra symbols, Wikipedia entry.
African Art Museum
On-line reference to the artistic styles of Africa. A collection of African tribal art featuring over 1,200 artifacts from 100 ethnic groups. Items on display include wooden and bronze statues, masks, religious, ritual and domestic objects, furniture and weapons.
The Africa Centre
Africa in the Heart of London. Text and images, dance and music.
The African Books Collective
African Books Collective, founded, owned and governed by African publishers, seeks to strengthen indigenous African publishing through collective action and to increase the visibility and accessibility of the wealth of African scholarship and culture.
Angola
Angola. Angola Today. News and events.
Music in Angola. Artists and bands.
Afromix.com
Art and Africa online. Tamarin
Links to African art web sites, online African art gallery, contemporary African art.
Art and Life in Africa Project
African art and culture. Information for 27 Sub-Saharan African Countries. From the University of Iowa.
Art and crafts directories, portals, organizations
African-Metropolis
Specializing in art and other African heritage web sites.
African Art on the Internet
A general web index from Stanford University.
Art and Africa online. Tamarin
Links to African art web sites, online African art gallery, contemporary African art.
Art and Life in Africa Project
African art and culture. Information for 27 Sub-Saharan African Countries. From the University of Iowa.
Arts Council of the African Studies Association, ACASA
Established in 1982 as an independent non-profit professional association affiliated with the African Studies Association (ASA). On-line newsletter, awards and past recipients, etc.
Art Track
This auction database offers by subscription, the auction records of African, Pre-Columbian, American Indian, and Oceanic art sold since 1980.
International Council of African Museums: AFRICOM
News and newsletter, activities, events gallery, resources and directory of museums in Africa. [English, French]
Museums Online South Africa
Museums Online South Africa (MOSA)? is an established heritage portal recognized both nationally and internationally.
National Museum of African Art
Skoto Gallery, New York
Skoto Gallery was established in 1992 as a space where some of the best works by African artists can be exhibited within the context of a diverse and totalized audience. As one of the first galleries specializing in contemporary African Art in New York City, it has been instrumental in the progression of this rapidly growing field.
Artslink
South Africa art news, reviews, art guide, chat and discussion.
Ashanti
B
Bearden. Romare. Romare Bearden
The Romare Bearden Foundation
Blogs
African Art. Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress.
African art blog top list.
Articles about African art.
Robert-Goldwater-Library: A contemporary African art blog.
Art of Africa
An African art Blog leading to an African Art site.
Jacaranda Tribal African Art Blog. Information, Comments, Reviews …
Detours des Mondes
An art collecting resource for art collectors. African Art Blogs and Online News …
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Ceramics
Mukondeni, Arts and Crafts Gallery.
Venda and Shangan art (potters, sculptures, musical instruments) with artist profiles.
Ceramics. Museum of African Art
African Pottery – All About African Art
319 best African Ceramic Art images on Pinterest
Congo/Republique du Congo
Art of Congo. Congo Pages. Malachite and Copper artists.
The Congo Pages. An Introductionto Congolese Life and Culture.
History of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Contemporary African art
Africancrafts.net
Guide to Contemporary African art. Gabon
African Contemporary Fine Arts (AFRUM)
Artists, galleries and projects.
African Contemporary
Online gallery featuring contemporary African paintings, sculptures and ceramics.
Contemporary African Art Collection, CAACART
Collection of Jean Pigozzi. Artist biographies, images of their works, list of exhibitions, news reviews.
Dak’Art, La Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain
Osman Art. Merka Art Gallery
Paintings by Mohamed Buwe Osman, a native of Merka Somalia.
Crafts
Africacrafts.com
A web site dedicated to bringing the arts and the artisans of Africa online. Online shops, craftspeople, artists, designers.
D
David Krut Fine Arts, London, a promoter of African art.
Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa
E
Ethiopa
Ethiopian art, Wikipedia entry.
Ethnologue
Languages of Africa and the world.
Events
Festivals and events listed by country.
Africa Guide
F
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Artafrica
Artists from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome e Principe and those resident in South Africa. biographical information, a list of exhibitions, awards, examples of the artists’ work. Based in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Ghana
El Anatsui
El Anatsui. Wikipedia
El Anatsui is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia Born in 1944 in Anyako, Ghana, and based at the university town Nsukka in Nigeria since 1975, El Anatsui is perhaps the most significant living African artist working on the continent today.
El Anatsui. Jack Shainman Gallery
Monumental Works by El Anatsui. Brooklyn Museum
Navrongo and Lawra – life in a small African village.Work, music, dance.
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Index on Africa
A comprehensive guide, searchable by country and subject.
K
Kenya
ArtMatters.Info
A Nairobi-based arts, culture, communications and media firm.
Kenya art and crafts online gallery.
Kuona Trust Centre for Visual Arts in Kenya
Nairobi
M
Makonde, East Africa
The Hamburg Mawingu Collection
is a collection of modern Makonde art. In addition to sculptures of select wood carvers the fund contains numerous masks and paintings.
Mali/Republic of Mali/République du Mali
Contemporary art from Mali. Malian artists.
Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, France
Timbuktu
Timbuktu UNESCO World Heritage site.
Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madrasas, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, recall Timbuktu’s golden age. Although continuously restored, these monuments are today under threat from desertification.
The Islamic Legacy of Timbuktu. Islamic Arts and Architecture
Tombouctou Manuscripts Project
A South Africa-Mali Timbuktu Manuscripts Project was officially launched in 2003 and a major achievement of this project was the new library-archive building, which was inaugurated in Timbuktu in January 2009. The Tombouctou Manuscripts Project at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is dedicated to research various aspects of writing and reading the handwritten works of Timbuktu and beyond. Training young researchers is an integral part of its work.
Timbuktu’s ancient manuscripts to get a new digital existence. The Guardian
Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu. The Library of Congresss
Images of Timbuktu manuscripts.
Cour de la mosquée de Djingareiber, Tombouctou
Museums, art museums in Africa
The British Museum’s African art collection.
International Council of African Museums: AFRICOM
News and newsletter, activities, events gallery, resources and directory of museums in Africa. (English, French)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s African art collection.
Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, France
Museums Online South Africa
Museums Online South Africa (MOSA) is an established heritage portal recognized both nationally and internationally.
Museum of African Art, Belgrade
Natal Museum
South Africa
National Museum of African Art
North American African art and history museums.
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Stanford University webpage directory for African art museums and African art websites.
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Namibia
National Art Gallery of Namibia
Collections of Namibian and African as well as European Art. Regular exhibitions from the permanent collection and temporary shows.
National Museum of African Art, The Smithsonian
News feeds. All Africa.com
News from African states, from Algeria and Angola to Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Nigeria
Nigeria: an arts overview. Mask sculpture, Yoruba.
Nike Centre for Art and Culture, Nigeria
G. I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture
This site is a research resource. It was designed to make these photographs available to people who have a personal or professional interest in the art of Southeastern Nigeria.
Yoruba Potters: Mothers and Daughters
R
Revue Noire
Contemporary art magazine for the African diaspora.
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Sculpture
African Sculptural Art (African Votive Sculpture)
Papers by H.E.Roese, Ph.D.
African Sculpture
African Studies Center
Somalia
Osman Art. Merka Art Gallery
Paintings by Mohamed Buwe Osman, a native of Merka Somalia.
Stanford University African Art Collection
Sub-Saharan African art, an exhibition,
Emory University. African art essays.
South Africa
See: South African art, a list of websites.
Sudan
Sudan websites. African Studies Centre
Sudanese Art. All About African Art
Swaziland
The Art of Swaziland. Swaziland Arts and Crafts
Swaziland Trust for African Rock Art
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Tanzania
Lilanga, George. George Lilanga
the website of the well-known Tanzania painter and sculptor.
Art in The United Republic of Tanzania
11 Artists to Know From Tanzania. Culture Trip
The 10 Best Tanzania Art Galleries (with Photos). TripAdvisor
The Beautiful Eyes photography gallery
Culture of Tanzania. Wikipedia
Uganda
Uganda. A general information portal for Uganda,
Uganda history and culture portal.
My Uganda.com
Kibuuka.com Virtual Art Gallery
Paintings of Ugandan artist, David Kibuuka.
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Yoruba and Akan Art in Wood and Metal, Africa.
Extensive resources on the lost wax process, wood carving and metalwork.
Zambia
Zambia news updates.
All Africa.com.
Zanzibar
Zanzibar Travel Network. A tourist guide.
Zimbabwe
African Fine Art: Shona Stone Sculpture
Shona-African-Sculptures.com provides hope to Shone stone carvers in Zimbabwe, Africa through charitable donations and actions. Browse the finest collection of Shona stone sculptures in the world with Muvezi.
Zimbabwe
A gallery of sculpture from African Art. In German.
Maviyane-Davies, Chaz. Chaz Maviyane-Davies
Zimbabwe design consultant, poster artist and filmmaker.