S.Africa hunts for lost apartheid-era black art
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SOWETO, South Africa  - South Africa is scouring the globe to recover lost works by black artists that depict the turbulent apartheid era in a drive to educate young people about the struggle against white rule.
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South Africa&#39;s wine industry, long synonymous with the lush pastures of the Cape and wealthy white clientele, will undergo an image makeover this weekend in the most famous black township.
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The Art Loss Register, a London database of 180,000 missing art works, is on the trail of two Picassos stolen in Paris last week. By the Associated Press.
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Police in Bangladesh have begun a massive search to recover two rare archaeological artifacts stolen from Dhaka airport, officials said on Monday.
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Exile, alcoholism, drug addiction, discrimination, failed marriages -- South African jazz icon Hugh Masekela has been through them all.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily January 28, 2005 - PARIS - Limpopo, Zambezi and Kalahari were the names of the looks in the Jean-Paul Gaultier's African influenced haute couture collection, which, surely, confirms him as the most inventive designer in fashion today.
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DELFT, Netherlands  - An art restorer says he has  solved a centuries-old mystery with the discovery of the studio  of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
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SA's blood service faces questions after President Mbeki's blood is destroyed because he is black.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa, Dec. 17 -- Africa's iconic liberation movement this week is facing urgent new demands from its own members to display the same principles of open, accountable rule that it long demanded of the apartheid state.
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A decade after apartheid's collapse, the gold industry in South Africa provides a measure of the transition in a country critical to Africa's future.
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Evidence is emerging from Africa that colours were being used in a symbolic way perhaps 200,000 years ago, a UK scientist claims.
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John T. Scottâs vibrantly colored kinetic art filtered the spirit of the African diaspora through a modernist lens.
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Two of the four paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art thefts have been recovered in an abandoned car
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Four museums in California are searched for antiquities allegedly smuggled from south east Asia.
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PRETORIA, South Africa  - South Africa must spend  some $2.05 billion to resolve outstanding land claims by blacks  in an effort to reform land ownership in the formerly  white-ruled country, the government said Tuesday.
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Aboriginal art in Australia is booming and improving the lives of poor black communities, but unscrupulous dealers are ripping off artists and fraud from China and India is undermining the industry.
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Search technology for images may lead to a way to search handwritten manuscripts.