Julien Benoit receives funding from the DSI-NRF African Origins Platform. A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus?

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Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a photograph of the work, claiming that it had been painted by Gustav Klimt, ...

Art history is filled with examples of the powerful and the wealthy communicating their status through portraiture. Not just sovereigns, but military leaders, aristocrats, and champions of industry.

The gallery selling the work, which resurfaced at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair, says a major museum is negotiating to buy it. Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona.Credit...W&K ...

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STORY: Blessing Ngobeni first picked up a paintbrush during a nine-year stint in prison. Now the South African artist is getting ready for an exhibition in the UK's capital London next year. But, the ...