In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists ... so did Willem de Kooning (a white European). Art allowed Whitten to bridge the country’s racial divides with ...

Earlier this year, “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical ... gives the drama of the painting a content. O’Neal has said that her art “spoke, in perhaps a very abstract way, of my struggles ...

This month she explored an extraordinary, yet little written about, history of Black abstraction in a piece for The New York Times: Once Overlooked, Black Abstract Painters ... Figurative painting and ...

Painting in Black and White” at London’s National Gallery proves how much can be gained from the absence of color. This story begins, like so many others in Western art, with the church.