The painter Tesfaye Urgessa will represent Ethiopia for the country’s first-ever national pavilion at this year’s 60th Venice Biennale, which runs from April 20 until November 24, 2024. His exhibition ...

World-renowned contemporary visual artist Julie Mehretu is known for her large-scale abstract works exploring themes of history and globalism. In an interview with CNN’s Larry Madowo in Nairobi, Kenya ...

PARIS, France—Ethiopian artist Julie Mehretu debuted the 20 th BMW Art Car last week in Paris. With her design, Mehretu fused industrial design objects, creating a “performative painting” on the ...

“People often think African art is just about tradition or folklore, but it’s far more complex — it's a critical part of the global conversation,” says Mifta Zeleke, a curator whose work reshapes ...

“Ethiopia at the Crossroads” is getting a special blockchain boost for its final stint at the Toledo Museum of Art as part of the Ethiopian family art collective’s residency with the museum. America’s ...

"Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art." "Ethiopian Passages sketches, in broad strokes, the complexities, diversity and vibrancy of artistic practices among artists of Ethiopian descent at work ...

Urban life can be a tricky, even precarious, walk across a tightrope, referred to in "Tightrope: Behind the Processor #2," the title of this work by Elias Sime. Recently acquired by the New Orleans ...

LONDON — How Addis Fine Art got off the ground is a tale of happenstance built on the back of good timing. An Ethiopian Gallery Enriches a Global Art Conversation Rakeb Sile, 39, who was born in ...

CHICAGO — The Barack Obama Presidential Center is coming together piece by piece on the city’s South Side and a new towering installation by a world-renowned artist has just been announced. A ...

Addis Ababa, August 17, 2025 (ENA) -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expressed his heartfelt condolences over the passing away of the iconic Ethiopian artist Debebe Eshetu. Debebe, who was one of the ...