Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Frist Art Museum will present New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations ...

A pair of Kimi masks (headpiece carved by David Sanou in the studio of André Sanou) performing greetings with the lead griot Tchiedo playing his drum behind them, Bindougosso district, Bobo-Dioulasso, ...

From initiation rites to harvest festivals, many traditional African rituals require participants to don masks and elaborate costumes that transform their wearers into spirits, beasts, or ancestral ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --The Frist Art Museum presents New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, an exhibition that offers a rare and close look at ...

While the autumntime, and Halloween and its attending parties in particular, is very much about the concept of masquerade and costuming and different identities, the concept of the mask isn't simply ...

Midway through “Disguise: Masks and Global African Art,” a compelling group exhibit on display at the Brooklyn Museum, visitors enter an installation by Saya Woolfalk that feels like a temple in a ...

Kalamazoo man convicted in 2023 Mother's Day drive-by shooting Another person has been convicted in connection to a deadly Mother's Day shooting that happened in Kalamazoo almost three years ago.

Ambassador Arthur Mbanefo (CON, MFR), the Odu of Onitsha, and once Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, ...

Aden, J. A. (2003) ‘Anvils of blood, oaths of iron: a history of power and association in the Komo complex of the western Sudan (West Africa) from the late nineteenth century to the present’. PhD ...