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 ...

Hana Yilma Godine paints women in private moments: in repose on the couch, at the hair salon, preparing for a wedding. The artist, who received her MFA from Boston University in 2020, studied with ...

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 ...

Exhibition documents Addis Ababa’s fading neighborhoods through watercolor and acrylic. An acrylic painting measuring 1.3 meters by 1.8 meters greets visitors at the entrance of ...

"Ethiopian Church Art is the first book to examine the magnificent paintings of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church through the eyes of the individuals who make, commission, and sell them. It ...

BALTIMORE, Maryland — Dark-eyed saints and apostles parade across a long stitched goatskin in robes of red, yellow, green, and blue. These holy figures are paired in conversation across accordion ...

Twenty works by Ethiopian modernist master Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian will be offered at Bonhams modern and contemporary African art sale in New York on May 4. The paintings and works on paper, ...

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 ...

With an exuberant flourish, Ethiopian artist Fikru Gebremariam slaps bold streaks of paint across the large canvas propped up against a wall in his Addis Ababa studio.

CHICAGO — The Barack Obama Presidential Center is coming together piece by piece on the city’s South Side and a new towering installation by a world-renowned artist has just been announced. A ...

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 ...