San Diego Union-Tribune

African masks and sculptures displayed in original context in ‘Africa in Context’ exhibition at Mesa College

As a young girl growing up in southeastern San Diego’s Shelltown neighborhood, Denise Rogers spent time flipping through the pages of Time and Life magazines her mother kept on their coffee table. At ...
D Magazine

A Sense of Spiritual Awe Clings to African Masks in the Dallas Museum of Arts’ New Exhibition

There’s a mask in the Dallas Museum of Arts’ African Masks: The Art of Disguise that transfixed me. Compared to the objects surrounding it in this show that features a wide collection of masks and ...
CNN

The rare African mask at the center of a fierce multimillion-dollar legal battle

When an elderly couple held a garage sale after selling their second home in the south of France, little did they know they would become embroiled in a legal battle with millions of euros at stake The ...
CNN

Elderly couple lose French court battle over $4.6 million African mask

A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple claimed ...