The artist, whose portraits explore leisure and repose, has suddenly found success in the notoriously fickle gallery world. The artist Danielle Mckinney, photographed at her Jersey City, N.J., studio ...

The artist’s blockbuster survey across nearly five decades at the Royal Academy of Art in London tackles Black history in all its complexity. Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy of Art in London ...

When visual artist Teresa Hopson noticed a gap in Charlotte’s art scene, she drew up a proposal for an exhibit featuring Black women artists. Hopson received a $3,000 Artist Support Grant from the ...

When Mariane Ibrahim opened a Seattle gallery in 2012 to showcase the contemporary art of Africa and its diaspora, she felt like she was shining a lonely light on the continent. Times have changed.

Opening September 16, 2021, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, a new exhibition examining the representation of Black women in the ...

Pharrell Williams has a new art exhibit aimed at celebrating Black womanhood. Pharrell Williams is the mastermind behind a new art exhibition in Paris, France, which he curated “to be an homage to ...

The Winterthur Museum in Delaware announced on May 6 its acquisition of a 167-year-old painting by Thomas Waterman Wood. It's considered a "document of Black history." (Courtesy Winterthur Museum) ...

A self-portrait by South African artist Alexis Preller and a piece from postcolonial Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi described by Sotheby’s as “career-defining,” will lead a sale of modern and ...

Explore the visual legacy of Black women in hip-hop at Art Basel. Discover how our styles shaped cultural identity.

As a young girl, Elizabeth “Betty” Catlett—born in Washington, D.C., likely in 1915—spent a great deal of time with her grandparents, who had been born into slavery and who took care to teach the ...