Ethiopian artist, Selamavit Gebrechadik, discusses in a conversation, the main features, challenges and meanings of her beautiful grand art exhibition titled “Leaf. Love. Life.” held in mid-February ...
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 ...
Under a canopy of trees in a park not far from Addis Ababa’s National Museum, home of many of Ethiopia’s historic national treasures, a contemporary art revolution is quietly afoot. It is here at ...
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 ...
Sophie Ong is the coordinating curator of “Ethiopia at the Crossroads” at the Toledo Museum of Art. Courtesy Toledo Museum of Art What’s the origin story of this exhibition? Why Ethiopia? Why now? The ...
One of the most exciting features of Art Dubai is the Ethiopian art on show, as the country’s leading gallery, Addis Fine Art, brings two notable artists to the emirate in a thoughtfully curated ...
WHEN I DROVE TO MY HOTEL from the Bole International Airport, in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, in early March, dozens of felled jacaranda trees lay on the verges of Bole Road. The prostrate ...
A most impressive group of folk arts is on exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and concurrent with the museum exhibit is another of Ethiopian painting at the Esther Bear Gallery. The Santa ...