The Ethiopian American film-maker Sosena Solomon spent two years making short documentaries about specific heritage sites for ...

Gladys Barker Grauer, widely considered the doyenne of African-American art in Newark, has two paintings in "Modern Heroics." Kingston-born Shoshanna Weinberger, a specialist in the many ...

from art and apartheid in South Africa to contemporary African art and, next semester, to the course "Postblack," which looks at race and contemporary African American art. Is there a common thread to ...

For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of ...

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art draws heavily on art ... epic grumpiness about some aspects of contemporary African American culture, it’s not surprising ...

African American Museum, Dallas at Fair Park announced it has extended If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future: Selections of Contemporary South African Art from the Nando’s Art ...

Four museums featuring exhibits this fall are recognizing the work of African and African American ... of Art According to the exhibit’s originator, Kimberli Gant, curator of Modern and ...

I Will Demand It" (back wall) are among the works on display in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's "Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940."(Evie Marie Bishop ...

Keeping Black stories alive has been vital to the development and perseverance of the African American people ... my story,” stated Charity Hicks, a modern day griot. Hicks is a writer and ...

The area’s evolution from a cultural movement’s epicenter to a modern hub of African American art and enterprise demonstrates the community’s ongoing vitality. Local businesses, galleries ...