African Textiles and Decorative Arts in 1972 and African Furniture and Household Objects in 1989, exhibitions curated by Roy Seiber, brought attention to objects for the house and human body and demonstrated that the parameters of traditional African visual arts are not limited to mask

Indigenous African seats are generally low to the ground and lack back- or armrests. In societies where all were entitled to such furniture, the highest-ranking political and religious officials owned seats that were larger and more elaborate.

Village chiefs (nkumu) among the Ekonda and neighboring groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo wear a tiered hat (botolo) as an insignia of office and an association with the powers of the ancestors, i

This hat was originally part of the regalia worn by a Yaka or a Suku regional chief (mfumu misa

Using childhood memories as a generative device, Louise Bourgeois dealt with issues of gender, and with such universal themes as sex, anxiety, death, loneliness, and pain. Her diaristic experiments and disturbing imagery related to the body anticipated post-minimalist

The tree-like form on this delicate tapestry is composed of two symbols that represent increments of time. Alighiero Boetti used these signs to record the ringing of the bells at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, Italy.