The Walters Art Museum’s impressive “Ethiopia at the Crossroads” is an extensive survey of Ethiopian art and cultural production.

In the center of a meditative gallery, artist Tsedaye Makonnen’s seven light towers—made from mirrored boxes featuring the cutout designs of Ethiopian crosses—serve as monuments to lost ...

Documents the artistic continuities between ancient Ethiopian Orthodox traditions and modern Ethiopian painters -- Skunder Boghossian, Gebre Kristos Desta, Wosene Kosrof, Falaka Armide, Tesfaye ...

Ethiopian culture explored with Medieval icons, Haile Selassie’s cloak and scratch-and-sniff cards ...

Emperor Haile Selassie rocked the Coptic Christian Church to its 1800-year-old foundations. To Cairo and the Coptic pope, Patriarch Markarius III, the gentle Negus sent a rough message: the next ...

By the beginning of the 11th century, only the Nubian and Ethiopian colonies of Coptic culture were intact.

“Ethiopia at the Crossroads,” traverses 1,750 years of that nation’s artistic traditions, emphasizing its influence as the bridge between Africa, Europe, and Asia.

An Ethiopian Coptic Bible on vellum from the early to mid-18th century, housed in a sewn leather purse together with a Coptic cross, was also withdrawn from the auction.

From the 4th century onwards the Coptic and the byzantine art culture influenced the way of local paintings. The art of painting also started to pick steam for the purpose of decorating churches ...

These Seven Stunning Towers Memorialize Lost Black Lives With Mirrors, Light and Ethiopian Cross Designs At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a ...