Kehinde Wiley rose to national recognition after his official portrait of President Obama was unveiled in 2018. But the American artist has been rewriting history and representation in art for nearly ...

A young Black woman with long hair gazes slightly to the viewer’s left as she commands the center of the canvas, flanked by two older Black women, one wearing a hat and the other with an afro ...

The African American Museum Dallas, 3536 Grand Ave, inside Fair Park, hosts the annual Southwest Black Art Show this weekend, April 20-21, The show features fine art by nearly 20 artists of African ...

Among the mysteries of recent art history is the whereabouts of many works by the great African American painter Jacob Lawrence. An industry that did not properly value Black artists’ contributions ...

World renowned artist, Jonathan Knight, will showcase his artwork at the African American Museum of the Arts in Deland ...

Cresting and falling like ocean waves in a storm, abstract hues of teal and turquoise, with bold patches of emerald and lavender, reign in Felrath Hines’s The Island (1962). A graduate of Crispus ...

WORCESTER — He might be called the Jackie Robinson of the art world. Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was the first African-American artist to achieve international acclaim. Tanner was one of the ...

Three new paintings by Black artists were unveiled in the Indiana Memorial Union on November 28 as part of an initiative to expand the IMU’s art collection with contemporary works more representative ...

This story is a collaboration between artnet News and In Other Words. As a child growing up in Alabama in the 1950s and ‘60s, Jack Whitten was not permitted inside his segregated local museum in ...