“Disguise: Masks and Global African Art” is an exhibition about identity, which is unremarkable when questions of identity have been front and center for artists for more than a quarter-century. What ...

From initiation rites to harvest festivals, many traditional African rituals require participants to don masks and elaborate costumes that transform their wearers into spirits, beasts, or ancestral ...

While group of 16 Museum of Arts and Sciences’ explorers are touring the Serengeti wilds and experiencing the cultures of Kenya, folks closer to home can get a taste of Africa too. The museum’s ...

It seems no museum collection is complete without a few token African masks. Many of us have glimpsed them walking between exhibits, but few of us know what role they actually play to the many ...

From masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings masks ...

Heritage is both natural and cultural. The removal of Tanzania’s great Brachiosaurus skeleton and the extraction of ritual masks and reliquaries from Mali, Gabon and Cameroon reveal a pattern: ...