The film "Right On Be Free" emphasizes the importance of art and community in the African American experience. It calls for black individuals to engage with their heritage through artistic expression, ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many different forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear as ordinary as a woman with natural hair perfectly coiffed and a ...

British artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien has spent over two decades pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling.

Based in Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, the organization makes art that can seem luxurious meet real, lived necessities.

A blockbuster show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris spotlights 300-plus works by 150 artists of African heritage ...

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

BLACK ENTERPRISE spotlights 19 Black women visual artists to honor and recognize for International Black Women's History ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why ...

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, ...

The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...

The Trump administration is slashing funds for museums and libraries, as a way to coerce these and other liberal arts institutions to bend to his movement’s will in a fashion reminiscent of Nazi ...