The National Portrait Gallery in London has launched an appeal to save this rare early 18th century portrait of a Gambian, muslim intellectual named Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, for the nation. This will ensure that the history …

FACE TO FACE: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (USA) & Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle (USA)
Opens October 2012
” Face to Face: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe, an unprecedented exhibition, explores …

Artist Kehinde Wiley speaks about his work on Bloomburg’s arts programme, Muse:
“My work isn’t necessarily driven by a desire to create a corrective, but I think a corrective is ultimately what comes out of it. …

Professor Jack Flam (City University, New York) gives a lecture on African Art and Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in conjunction with the exhibition: Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary …

Jacob Jordaens, Moses and his Ethiopian Wife, c.1650
Oil on Canvas, Rubenshuis, Antwerp
In early versions of the Old Testament, there is a passage which describes Moses introducing his Moorish or Ethiopian wife to his sister Miriam …