Since 1865, when Édouard Manet's painting "Olympia" debuted in ... Laura Wheeler Waring to illustrate the role of black models in modern art, starting with the black maid from "Olympia." ...

This pride is most recently manifested in her latest exhibition, “Around the Way,” currently on show at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland. The show’s title is a nod to Black American ...

Before the black square became the official aesthetic of doth that protest too much, Black artists and curators were using their lenses, brushes, and keystrokes to translate cultural experiences ...

Though it’s taken time for the industry to begin acknowledging, Black women artists have always been at the forefront of prominent visual art movements and sparking crucial dialogue with their work.

A vistior to the Philadelphiia Museum of Art stops to gaze ... Figure,” features work by 28 contemporary Black artists depicting life and culture through sculpture, drawing and painting. Many of the ...

A powerful example of this critical curatorial work can be seen now through September 25, 2022, at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth (TX) where “Women Painting Women” presents a tour de ...

During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, under the influence of Italian painting on the one hand, and that of the more realistic art ... contemporary artistic production, but also upon the ...