In its founding years in the early 20th century, the Louisiana State Museum borrowed dozens of artworks from Marshall Marcell ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, which partnered with the modern Civil Rights Movement. In ...

Helen LaFrance was a self-taught folk artist primarily focused on memory paintings—vivid depictions drawn from her ...

Special thanks to our Brooklyn Museum American Art Advisory Committee and Black Feminist Roundtable. This exhibition is made possible through ... and the Brooklyn Museum Council for African American ...

Learn about Ann Lowe, the African American fashion designer behind Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress, and her lasting impact ...

Lorraine O'Grady, a conceptual artist who challenged the understanding of race, sex and class in art and society through her ...

Lorraine O'Grady, an artist who bravely used her conceptual pieces and performance art to critique systems of power, ...

Pace African & Oceanic Art announced it would close this week after more than 50 years of selling artefacts from central and west Africa and the islands of the Pacific in New York. “Thank you to ...

There’s a new art exhibition opening in Phoenix on Saturday — and it’s all about hair. Black hair, to be specific. Naps, Headwraps & Afros features Black artists as well as hairstylists working ...