Thomas created the first individual portrait of first lady Michelle Obama in 2008. Her art reflects power, sexuality, and representation in the representation of Black women in art and culture.

Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism.

Janice Frame, a renowned artist and longtime Island resident, conveys the radiance and strength of African people, as well as ...

Hobbs’ art serves as a living altar to the multiplicity of Black women’s experiences. Calling the work “reverential,” her portraits reject the notion that Black women can be pigeonholed in ...

women who are not necessarily academics or public figures, but carry unique, untold stories of Black womanhood. But the “Mae Upperman papers,” which will include her books, art and a record of her ...

More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ...

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist artist, primarily known for his paintings of women and his use of ... he completed the portrait of the African prince. The painting features floral motifs ...

A remarkably unique 17th-century double portrait depicting a Black and white woman ... that the moralistic painting is condemning the vanity of the women, as an inscription above their heads ...

An early painting by the famed ... its recent rediscovery. The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona — a representative of the Ga people in West Africa, in what is Ghana today ...

Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The Courtauld ...