Reviewed by John Picton in African arts (Los Angeles) 51 (2) summer 2018, pages 92-93 (N1.A258 AFA). Reviewed by Eric Gable in African studies review (Piscataway, NJ) 60 (1) April 2017, pages 234-235 ...
History is often taught as if serious art followed a single European arc—from classical Greek sculpture to Renaissance ...
Essay on the royal arts of Ife in the twentieth century and in ancient times. Includes discussions of the beaded crowns, the ancient terracottas and brass heads, and ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A show about the kingdom of Ife, which flourished in what is now Nigeria from the 12th to 15th centuries, underlines why sculptures found last century forced the West to ...
With work dating from the ninth to the 15th century, this traveling show has been designed to reveal the depth of artistic achievement in the city-state that once existed in what is now southwestern ...
How can greatness be forgotten? Well, a lot can happen in 800 years. On the southwestern coast of Nigeria lies a land known as the kingdom of Ife. At its cultural peak between the 12th and 15th ...