PARIS, France—Ethiopian artist Julie Mehretu debuted the 20 th BMW Art Car last week in Paris. With her design, Mehretu fused industrial design objects, creating a “performative painting” on the ...

The painter Tesfaye Urgessa will represent Ethiopia for the country’s first-ever national pavilion at this year’s 60th Venice Biennale, which runs from April 20 until November 24, 2024. His exhibition ...

Author Dinaw Mengestu is among a generation of Ethiopian Americans whose families fled the East African nation in the 1970s and '80s. Now their... Ethiopian-American Artists Make Their Mark ...

Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with The Africa Institute, Global Studies University (GSU), and Sharjah Museums Authority, will present Henok Melkamzer's first international solo exhibition ...

Deep thinking. Given the luxury of time to think–surrounded by the world’s greatest artwork–museum curators find linkages between people and places not readily apparent. Ways of seeing the world ...

Sophie Ong is the coordinating curator of “Ethiopia at the Crossroads” at the Toledo Museum of Art. Courtesy Toledo Museum of Art What’s the origin story of this exhibition? Why Ethiopia? Why now? The ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced the exhibition “Tsedaye Makonnen—Sanctuary.” Opening Dec. 13 and remaining an ongoing display, the exhibition features seven sculptures ...

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Jan. 23-Apr. 29, 2007, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville. The Addis Ababa Fine Arts School : a critically important ...

Urban life can be a tricky, even precarious, walk across a tightrope, referred to in "Tightrope: Behind the Processor #2," the title of this work by Elias Sime. Recently acquired by the New Orleans ...

correctionAn earlier version of this article incorrectly said the Byzantine Empire, Armenia, Coptic Egypt and Ethiopia all shared a common Eastern Orthodox Christianity. The last three churches are ...

Veronica Adane has quickly established herself as one of Ethiopia’s most dynamic contemporary artists, skillfully blending traditional Ethiopian sounds with ...

When Eritrean painter Noah Mulubrhan crossed into Ethiopia last year, he had little desire to stay -- and even less of an expectation that the move would be a boon to his career. The 35-year-old was ...