California history is often thought of as synonymous with the railroad and the gold rush, but Black history is not. “Black ...

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." ...

But “Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone ... the “to” in “to Contemporary Art” should probably be more accurately an “and,” since the show actually leaps from paintings by the 14th ...

“I’m my own ideal,” Sherald said when I asked why she grayed a black body as a point of departure. “There’s a contemporary ... the truth—painting is the soul food of art, in a way.” ...

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 ...

His work, which rendered football as modern ... Black bodies in the paintings made my impoverished existence a little easier,” Haygood says. “Barnes was the sole artist to introduce visual art ...