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 ...

African culture shown through ceremonial masks and relics passed down for generations are on display this month at the Spartanburg Art Museum. Dozens of pieces used for everything from celebrating ...

“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 ...

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 ...

A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple claimed ...