The artist who painted former President Barack Obama's official presidential portrait hailed the former first couple's choice of black artists for both paintings, calling it a signal that it was now ...

This collection from the Heart & Soul exhibition currently on display at the Keith De Lellis gallery in SoHo features impressive African-American photography from; Beuford Smith, Mikki Ferrill, Fred ...

Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ambrotype ...

A sequence of teardrops is suspended from the late NBA superstar's left eye in "Shattered Dreams," an expressive memorial to Kobe Bryant painted in 2020 with oils and glow-in-the-dark acrylic by ...

SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio artist is inviting the community to see his latest artwork for Black History Month. “I did this series, because there is almost this lack of emotions for Black children, ...

Nearly 50 paintings by Amy Sherald, well known for her realist portraits of Black people, are on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the artist's first mid-career survey. Continuing ...

Viewers should lose themselves in Jeremy Okai Davis’ latest portrait exhibit, from the stage, a calling…, which opens Thursday, Nov. 7 at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, as soon as possible. For his third ...

More than 50% of whom are African-American. And the history of the city and its surrounding rapids parish has been profoundly shaped by their accomplishments. Alexandria artist and retired educator ...

Kehinde Wiley: courtier or court jester? Sincere artist or shrewd businessman? Visitors can make up their own minds at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques-Chirac in Paris, where the African-American ...

Learn about four LGBTQ+ women who were featured in projects across the Smithsonian Meredith Herndon Audre Lorde speaking at the Third World Gay Conference in 1979. Collection of the Smithsonian ...

"Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title held at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020-21. The exhibition was co-organized with the Katonah Museum of Art, where it was on view from ...

Former Georgia State Representative Calvin Smyre has achieved many firsts and milestones in his career: he was the first African-American to hold the position of administrative floor leader, the first ...