Women of the Ouled Nayls, 1867

Eugène Fromentin

Storage Container, 19th/mid–20th century

Kurumba

Our House, from the series "Chickenbones and Watermelon Seeds: The African American Experience as Abstract Art", 2001

Rashid Johnson

Double Panel, Mid–/late 19th century

Mangbetu

Goldweight Depicting a Drum, 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

Ife Bronze, from the series "Hairstyles", 1972

J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere

Figure of a Standing Warrior, 650–800

Maya

Oak Bluffs, c. 1940

Hilda Wilkinson Brown

4:00 a.m. Going to work, Wolwekraal–Marabastad bus: More than an hour and a half still to go, 1983

David Goldblatt

Female Face Mask (Mbuya ya Mukhetu), Early/mid–20th century

Pende

Man Lying Down, Subway Steps, 1965

Roy DeCarava

Invisible Woman I, from the series "Invisible Women", 2006

Sabelo Mlangeni

Royal Pheasants, 1980

Fon

Carpet, 1875–1900

Drawing from "Zeno Writing" (female figure lying on stomach, with text), 2002

William Kentridge

Tripod Polychrome Bowl Depicting a Serpent with Feathers, 500–750 CE

Veracruz, Classic

Jar with Interlocking-Stepped Motifs in Diagonal Pattern, 950–1400

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

Tears for Eros, 1999

Kendell Geers

Fragment, A.D. 1000/1476

Chancay

Jar, 1300–1400

Cibola