The Met has made key acquisitions of black art in recent years, including the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift and a group of African American portrait photographs from the 1940s and 1950s. The ...

BROCKTON – With each stroke, Brockton artist Hilton Parham has striven to capture moments of black history and sports greatness. Parham, 88, is the artist behind a large collection of oil ...

PHILADELPHIA — Dazzled by the iconic Cézanne, Matisse and Seurat paintings, most visitors to the Barnes Foundation overlook the African sculptures. Yet to Albert C. Barnes, who founded the ...

🎧 Click the red listen button to hear WBEZ’s interview with Antawan Byrd. The Art Institute of Chicago’s Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is massive, featuring 350 ...

The resilience, faith and purity of African American hymns come to life at the Historic Ward Rooming House with “Precious ...

The crown of Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) was 3D-printed, and the Black Panther suit in the first film had raised prints of what Carter called the “Okavango triangle,” named after the ...

A massive 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' mural painted on the street leading to the White House captured the world's attention last week — an eye-opening visual that, remarkably, is large enough to show ...

Rare 17th-Century Painting of Black and White Women Debuts After Export Ban. The highly unusual painting reveals 17th-century anxieties over immorality, vanity, and foreign influence.

African artist Ezrom Legae, a lesser known figure in protest art, addressed the institutionalized racism of the South African system of apartheid that existed from 1948 to 1990 in particular — and ...

How to say “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica,” an ambitious, magnificent, jam-packed survey currently on view at the Art Institute? Put the stress on the first syllable ...