PARIS (Reuters) - With its full beard and elongated breasts, worn smooth by the hands of thousands of women praying for fertility, an androgynous wooden statue is the centrepiece of a new Paris show ...

With the restitution of artworks more topical than ever, certain dealers who took advantage of the absence of heritage laws at the start of independence are trying to blame Africans for the misdeeds ...

– After Mali became independent, Western dealers scoured the country in search of objets d’art. Some of these works, acquired under opaque conditions, are now worth several million euros. – We have ...

Some three decades ago I became aware of the Dogon people through a book called “Conversations with Ogotemmelli,” by Marcel Griaule. For me, this interesting culture always symbolized the great ...

An exhibition of Dogon art from Mali has just opened at the Quai Branly museum in Paris. The largest exhibition in 20 years, it brings together more than 300 sculptures, masks and everyday objects all ...

Bermuda National Gallery Lunchtime series, 12.30 - 1.30 p.m. Video presentation: The Art of the Dogon. The Dogon peoples possess one of the richest art traditions in West Africa. Residing in an ...

The Dogon School comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 2022 the record price for this artist at ...

The National geographic sent writer and rock-climber Roberts to Dogon country along the Bandiagara escarpment to climb the cliffs up to Tellem burial caves and to descend into the villages below.