For nearly four decades, the Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery has shared stories of perseverance, innovation and achievement in the Black community.

One retired educator has turned her passion for art into yarn displays of African American culture. Annie Greene is a painter and craftswoman. She’s known for her yarn paintings ...

While taking nothing away from her individual ability and drive, a new exhibition positions the people surrounding Edmonia Lewis as essential to her success.

A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and artists are keeping her flame alive in new projects.

“I don’t know yet that there is such a thing as African LGBTQ art history,” says curator and author Serubiri Moses. Moses is a co-curator of “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art,” now open at the ...

Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art explores how LGBTQ+ artists from Africa and its diaspora are part of a larger, joyful story of African art history. Artists’ voices are central to this ...

Encyclopedic museums can feel very similar. By endeavoring to tell the entire history of art, as far as their collections allow, they sometimes underplay a concentration within their holdings that ...

Itohan I. Osayimwese is the author of “Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage.” (Photo by Christian Scully / Design Imaging Studios) This is your first of three ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art,” opens Jan. 23–Aug. 23. Artists’ voices are central to this exhibition, which features works ...

The conversation returns to me now, at the beginning of 2026, with an unexpected clarity. It took place last year at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda, over dinner at the Standard Bank restaurant ...

Discover how online art history research can enhance your drawing abilities in this engaging stream. Learn the techniques of renowned artists, analyse their works in depth, and practise drawing using ...

Knowledge grows in this art history research and drawing livestream that connects visual practice with historical understanding. Rather than memorizing dates and names, viewers experience how art ...