The High Museum of Art reopens its African galleries with a focus on women's ceramic traditions, highlighting their craftsmanship and cultural significance.

Body Vessel Clay at the Ford Foundation Gallery spans three generations of artists who embody continuity, molding the past and present. William Alfred Ismay, "Photograph of Ladi Kwali at a pottery ...

“The ancestral African tradition to which I belong tells me that clay is a portal. It is not inert. It breathes and it remembers,” writes Dr. Jareh Das, curator of “Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, ...

The actress, who has been on television for decades, is also a major collector of contemporary art. She loaned 40 pieces to the AAMP. CCH Pounder reflects on one of her favorite paintings by Nigerian ...

In Mickalene Thomas' art work, Black women are front and center. Her subjects are often at leisure, resting on couches and chairs, sometimes nude, and frequently accentuated by rhinestones and rich ...

A carefully crafted figure of a goose and a woman suggests that art reflecting spiritual beliefs entered a new phase among early villagers in the Middle East.