There has been a rapid rise in interest in contemporary African art over the past few years, with major survey shows from Brazil to France, new museums springing up in Marrakech and Cape Town and the ...

In Kinshasa, art is everywhere. Hilary Balu finds his focus uncovering the West’s powerful influences on African life. By Dionne Searcey Hilary Balu, a Congolese painter, at his studio in Kinshasa, ...

Goma — The residents of Goma in eastern DRC don't take much interest in local artists and their work. Buying art remains a luxury only tourists can afford. But Congolese artists are determined to make ...

Nostalgia is rising in Congo for Mobutu Sese Seko — the kleptocratic strongman as a new museum exhibit glorifying him draws ...

Painter Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga’s tiny, sweltering Kinshasa studio seems worlds away from his glittering, well-received foreign exhibitions. The 25-year-old painter says he is inspired by his country’s ...

Paris — Chéri Samba has a sly sense of humour, both in person and in his work. Standing in front of his 2018 painting "J'aime le jeu de relais" (I Love the Relays) - which criticizes politicians who ...

“FOR ME, KINSHASA is a beautiful woman who walks barefoot,” says Freddy Tsimba, a sculptor, in his studio in Matongé, one of the city’s most chaotic districts. The capital of the Democratic Republic ...

Even 1 1/2 years ago the musicians who became the subjects of Benda Bilili!, the documentary by Renaud Barret and his friend of 20 years, Florent de la Tullaye, were still sleeping rough on cardboard ...

For comic book fans around the world, a handful of cities evoke strong images: superheroes jumping from skyscrapers in New York; Tintin running across a building in a Brussels mural; wide-eyed ...