On the third day of Ethiopia’s internet blackout on June 24, a group of artists gather together at Addis Fine Art in Addis Ababa. All phone data and wifi has been suspended following a foiled coup by ...

Business and art are becoming increasingly entwined in the Ethiopian capital, but journalist James Jeffrey asks if this has come at a cost to creativity and true artistic experimentation. Image source ...

Over the last five years contemporary Ethiopian artists have been making a name for themselves on the global art market, but it’s been a long time coming. After almost four decades of political ...

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A 16-foot parchment fan made 500 years ago by Ethiopian monks. A painted wooden triptych showing Mary with a cloak of pale blue and eyes of deepest black. An ancient Gospel that contains in its ...

Addis Ababa — November 17 will herald the coming into existence of a new kind of an art center. Set up and envisioned by a private firm, the outfit will be the first of its kind in Ethiopia. So far ...

Anthropologists and archeologists define rock art as images carved, drawn, or painted onto immovable rock surfaces. As to them, rock art is explained in different ways-images that are carved or ...

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 ...

Over the last five years contemporary Ethiopian artists have been making a name for themselves on the global art market, but it’s been a long time coming. After almost four decades of political ...

Until recently the buying and selling of modern and contemporary art in Ethiopia was all but non-existent. The entrance to Makush Art Gallery & Restaurant in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, ...