Art: The Colonial School; Art: The Colonial School. 3 minute read. TIME. July 7, 1961 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... One black ceramic soldier, jaw jutting and hands on hips, ...

One highlight of the Van Gogh exhibition at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery last week was the portrait of a bluff, tough French colonial officer of Zouaves. The soldier had posed for some of Van ...

A multimedia exhibition is aiming to commemorate colonial soldiers who lost their lives in World War One. Mimesis: African Soldier by the artist John Akomfrah uses historic films and images to ...

Twenty-six works of art seized by French colonial soldiers in 1892 returned to Benin on Wednesday, a landmark in the long fight by African countries to recover looted artifacts.