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 ...
In Mickalene Thomas' art work, Black women are front and center. Her subjects are often at leisure, resting on couches and chairs, sometimes nude, and frequently accentuated by rhinestones and rich ...
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 ...
Jodi Bieber, “Babalwa” (2008) from the series Real Beauty, inkjet print © The artist (courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg) TORONTO ...
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 ...
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 ...
Catalog of exhibitions held at the Chicago Art Institute, Nov. 16- Dec. 1, 1927; and at the Chicago Woman's Club, Nov. 16 to 23, 1927. The cover illustration is signed: Charles C. Dawson.