Many artists train themselves through mimicry and adaptation. For Ethiopian Behulum Mengistu, 24, that wasn’t feasible; when he was a teenager and budding graffiti artist, his native Amharic alphabet ...

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 ...

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 ...

The abstract art on the walls of Our Table restaurant has a story behind it — a story as colorful and attention-getting as the pieces themselves. The artist, 20-year-old Yitagesu Dowty of Tumwater, ...

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 ...

In this Sunday, July 7, 2019 photo, Ethiopian Israeli musician Yael Mentesnot gives an interview to The Associated Press, in her house in Tel Aviv, Israel. A wave of Ethiopian Israeli artists have ...

As a child growing up in Ambo, Ethiopia, Netsanet Tesfay recalls sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time, drawing everything her eyes fell upon: pots, pans, a long-necked jebana — or kettle — ...

Wide-eyed superwomen mesh with history in an eye-catchinge new exhibit by an emerging Israeli artist, currently on view in Harlem. Bold, lively, and abstract, “Mulu and the Beta Clan” by Hirut Yosef ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the world was home to Africans, Asians, Europeans, Australians, and North and South Americans, all lands were massed in a single supercontinent called Pangaea. And before Pangaea, the ...