Whether sequestered behind glass in a museum or sold to tourists along Fifth Avenue, the African mask is an image from the non-Western world that we are all familiar with. Yet walking though the ...

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 ...

A fierce, horned mask from Liberia faces a kaleidoscopic video by Jakob Dwight. The old mask seems to watch the screen, transfixed by the morphing shapes and colors. This pairing — part of a big, bold ...

In the art of Africa, the mask is a versatile, multipurpose facade. It may signify identity and the ancestors, politics and medicine or the invisible world of the spirits. And in whatever form a mask ...

One of the most intriguing patients at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a fearsome-looking helmet mask from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection. The museum’s Conservation and Arts ...

As a young girl growing up in southeastern San Diego’s Shelltown neighborhood, Denise Rogers spent time flipping through the pages of Time and Life magazines her mother kept on their coffee table. At ...

Kimbell Art Museum is growing its collection of African sculptures with two new acquisitions from one of the largest private collections in the world. The Fort Worth museum acquired “Reliquary ...

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 ...

The transitional government of Gabon, which underwent a military coup d’état in August, has begun a legal battle for the restitution of an antique mask that last sold for €4.2 million ($4.4 million) ...