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Remarque: les résumés sont en français ou en anglais.

--Plus: 2010 review by Jimoh G. Jimga, Dept. of Creative Arts, University of Lagos

...an independent, not-for-profit entity incorporated in Nigeria to support cultural heritage art and archaeological projects by providing research, attracting funding and securing execution capability for high-value arts and cultural projects...LRT’s flagship project is a series of activities in Benin City, Edo State that will culminate in the establishment of the David Adjaye-designed Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA)."

[Since 2019] "EMKP supports knowledge holders, practitioners, and scholars with grants to conduct new research on critically threatened material knowledge globally, especially in understudied areas and where local funding opportunities are limited. EMKP also helps to connect source communities with museum objects stewarded around the world, and provides access to their material knowledge in a digital repository dedicated to its preservation."

--See also: Google Arts & Culture/The British Museum-Virtual Tour: "Egyptian sculpture"

A video about this past exhibition on sculptures from the historical kingdom in Nigeria.

-- About SARS publications. See also: Berlin's SAG-Sudan Archaeological Society below. below

--See also:  Afrotopia: Looking at Afrofuturism in Fashion (June 22, 2023) -and- Uncovering a Woman's History of African Indigo (July 13, 2023)

This site features 3,862 objects that have been digitally photographed, with several image sizes and background information--including where the object itself can be viewed in the museum; plus related web links.

--See also: "Double Take: African Innovations" (2014-)

"The Carlos Museum's Egyptian collection includes objects from the Predynastic period down to the Roman occupation. First and foremost, it illustrates the funerary beliefs and practices of the ancient Egyptians: the need for the preservation of the body and for burial with the proper funerary equipment. While this might seem to suggest that the Egyptians were obsessed with death, it must be remembered that such an impression is partly due to archaeological factors. The Egyptians buried their dead in the desert, while they lived their lives in cities and villages near the river. It is easier to excavate in dry sand than in areas where work is hampered by a high water table and by present-day occupation. Nevertheless, objects of everyday life are represented in the Carlos Museum's collection, thanks to the Egyptians' habit of placing such items in their tombs for use in the afterlife."

"..the approximately 900 works acquired by the Carlos Museum from William S. Arnett in 1994 offer valuable insight into African artistic expressions in the variety of their forms, functions, and cultures of origin. The collection also reflects Mr. Arnett's personal collecting interests over the past 25 years. A majority of the objects come from West Africa, with a focus on the numerous cultures of Nigeria, Republic of Benin, and the Cameroon Grassfields. The rest are from the Equatorial Central region of the continent, located mainly in the modern state of Zaire [Dem. Rep. of Congo]. Most of the works date from the 19th and early 20th centuries."

These web pages have not been updated since 1995: a brief history and discussion of kente cloth, with an entire page of samples and descriptions.

Un site bien illusté sur la grande héritage culturelle de la ville, y compris une galerie photographique sur le crépisage de la grande mosquée de Djenné, un recueil de cartes sur la localisation des tombeaux des Saints, et Djenné patrimoine informations. (Online). Bulletin. -- [France]: Association pour la promotion du patrimoine culturel de Djenné (Mali), 1996-2015.

An extensive collection of travel photographs of people, landscapes, and cultural sites among the Dogon and the Lobi of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana; plus images from along the Niger River in Mali. Note: individual photos are labelled, but there are no explanatory captions.
-- See especially: "Malian Architecture" photo album

A summary of the 1997 project on the archæogical and historical sites of Jenne-Jeno along the Upper Niger River in Mali, West Africa. The project was designed as a way of teaching archæology to middle and high school students. There are lots of interesting photographs, maps, diagrams, and links to other archaeology sites on the Net.

"[Spanning the 1940s-90s]...Archive of Malian Photography provides access to preserved & digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali. Since 2011, our collaborative team of US and Malian conservators has been cleaning, scanning, cataloging, and rehousing circa 100,000 photographic negatives from the archives of Mamadou Cissé, Adama Kouyaté, Abdourahmane Sakaly, Malick Sidibé, and Tijani Sitou for long-term preservation and access."

"Featuring texts by specialists from Mali, France, Britain, and the United States, ReCollecting Dogon examines the visual culture of the Dogon peoples of Mali and its 20th-century Western history—it is one of the most studied, collected, and mythologized visual cultures on the African continent."

These web pages offer very brief historical summaries, with a few images and maps. Topics include art of: Aksum, Benin, Egypt, Fulani/Fulbe, Great Zimbabwe, Ife, Igbo-Ukwu, Nok, Nubia, Mali and Songhai empires, Sudan, etc. -- See also: Works of Art: Africa

Images and detailed descriptions of the full inventory of objects in the permanent collection.

An exhbition highlighting "the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world."

Plusieurs descriptions des fonds du Musée et quelques exemples de l'Angola, du Gabon, de la Mauritanie ; et ceux des Touaregs.

Ten illustrated stories, some with videos, and 336 items digitized from the collections: including Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania.

This exhibition was organized and produced by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and guest curated by Henry Drewal, Ph.D., who is professor of Art History and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin. The exhibition debuted at the Fowler Museum, then traveled to the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. See the final viewing at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California.

"This exhibition celebrates the creativity of African artists who have made utilitarian objects of great beauty. Made to fulfill a specific function, each object was also skillfully conceived to provoke visual and tactile delight."

Gold objects by Akan artists from Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire in the 19th and 20th centuries.

"The exhibition is organized into sections that consider the forms and underlying aesthetic values of Urhobo society: personal images that offer protection and advancement; images of women at various stages of life; masquerade arts; and at the grandest level, communal shrine art, awesome in scale and form. Integral to the exhibition are works by contemporary Urhobo artist Bruce Onobrakpeya."

"The works employ text and graphic symbols to tell stories about memory, identity and the power of language. In doing so, they bring African visual histories into the global debate on conceptualism, which often melds word and image."

The website features videos and images by "10 artists, from across several generations, who have addressed issues of identity, experienced displacement and created new 'homelands'. Their artworks span the media--from paintings, mixed media, photography and digital prints to ceramic and papier mâché sculptures, murals and on-site installations."

The website includes images of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian icons (and processional crosses) from the 17th to the 19th centuries; plus a   short bibliography.

A selection of images from an exhibition of works by the new African diaspora artists in Europe and the USA.

The website features images from the photography exhibition.

These web pages offer a very brief summary of the history and art of the Mali empire, with only a few images and a list of related web links.

The exhibition explores the connection between African American artist Jacob Lawrence and his contemporaries based in West Africa through the Nigerian publication Black Orpheus. The exhibition features over 125 objects, including Lawrence’s little-known 1964–65 Nigeria series, works by the artists featured in Black Orpheus, archival images, videos, and letters."

An inventory and description of the collection of 7,610 photographs and sample images.

"This website brings together the collections of more than 30 institutions and individuals, giving you access to more than 270,000 digital images."
--See also: University of the Witwatersrand, Rock Art Research Institute

A gallery of images and links to basic information and discussion.

The website features information about public rock art sites in South Africa, plus information on research, museum-related activities, and publications.

A woman artist from Nigeria who sculpts in steel and exhibits mostly in England. Her work is inspired primarily by the Kalabari masquerades, sometimes by the Gelede masquerades of the Yoruba, and by her own observations of life in England and elsewhere. See more of Camp's work from a 1999 exhibit at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.

Online images of sculptures by the artist and links to her many exhibitions in Germany, the UK, and the USA.

"Founded in 2002, Afriart Gallery has since become a leading contemporary art gallery in Africa with a presence in two locations in Kampala. The gallery focuses on original forms of expression and dialogue with the public."
--See especially: Exhibitions

An open access digital gallery of photographs from and about Uganda over the last century. "HIPUganda collects photographs by digitising them. Originals stay where they are. By sharing the photographs online HIPUganda opens up the possibility to relate to, respond to, and think about how Uganda’s history is (and is not) available in photographs...These collections include colonial archives and personal collections, images made in a professional context that could range from photojournalism to anthropology, the content of shoeboxes and albums, photographs made by Ugandan and non Ugandan professionals and amateurs."

--"On Display in the Walled City: Nigeria at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924–1925," September 2019-March 2020
--"Particular Histories: Provenance Research in African Arts," July-November 2022

"Established in 1975, Gallery Delta is an important venue in Harare for changing exhibitions of Zimbabwean paintings, graphics, mixed media sculptures and ceramics."
--See also: Artists -and- Gallery Magazine, 1994-2002

--Plus: "Art for Art's Sake--the story of Gallery Delta." (2020) --via YouTube.com