The outbreak of a civil war in Sudan in April 2023 dealt a devastating blow to the country's art scene, which has recently been on the rise. In the capital city, Khartoum, galleries had just begun ...

Dozens of Sudanese artists and curators have fled their studios and galleries in the capital, jeopardizing thousands of artworks and imperiling an art scene central to the 2019 revolution.

Antiquities directors and curators share their personal stories of the chaos and looting that have devastated their lives and ...

“There’s either democracy or there’s civil war,” a friend told me the other evening, as we sipped coffee at a cafe on the Nile. Later that night, an artist I was interviewing said, “I’m afraid. I ...

As voters cast their ballots in the first Sudan election in 24 years, a group of artists are campaigning against a growing secession movement. From Sudan's top painters to a homeless man ...

If they wanted to look at Sudanese art, they can do that. But it's important for us to create the space to kind of just understand what exactly it is that we're living through, to give them a ...

Aiding artists felt especially monumental because Sudanese art was undergoing a renaissance. For the three decades that Mr. Bashir was president of Sudan, the country’s artists had worked in fear.

Abul Oyay's journey to the South Sudan art scene took a different path than Jalpan's. She started painting in 2010 while living in London, in the United Kingdom.

The Sudanese diaspora in the U.S. is fighting to keep the world's attention focused on the catastrophic fallout from the war back home. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on 10/20/24.) ...