The first inhabitants of southern Africa knew about locally abundant dicynodont fossils and made rock art about them.

On show at Osborne during Black History Month in October, it is now back at the stately home as part of “Painting our Past: The African Diaspora in England”, a cleverly conceived, multi-site ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time since its recent rediscovery.

Unearthed Klimt painting, first dismissed, now on sale for $16 million Gustav Klimt’s portrait of an African prince, painted when his people were displayed in a “human zoo,” was first ...

MINOT, ND (KXNET) — The giraffes at the Roosevelt Park Zoo will soon have a new home. The new African Plains Building, once finished, will be about 10,000 square feet — nearly double the old ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas sold at a new record for a living female artist.

A long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has finally reappeared in Austria decades after it disappeared around the 1940s. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist artist, primarily known for his paintings ...

Half-human, half-bird However, the image does not simply depict an African rail, and this hints at a spiritual dimension to the purpose of the painting.

In a recent research article, we described what we interpret as a painting of an African rail, found on the walls of a rock shelter in the Western Cape, south of the Langeberg range of mountains.