DR Congo
17m
Aug 29, 2026
The Geometry of a Kingdom: Kuba Raffia Art and the Visual Intelligence of Central Africa
Pablo Picasso saw Kuba cloth in 1907 and it changed how he thought about form. The Kuba Kingdom of central Africa had been solving geometric problems in woven raffia for centuries before Cubism had a name. Here is what the cloth knows that art history forgot to mention.