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

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 ...

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum is spotlighting the men and women who fought to end slavery but received little ...

Mario Moore's bold portraits explore the nature of veneration, self-determination, and the continuum of history.

Much of our understanding of history comes from written accounts, but it is art and ... very first Black British people to vote in a general election, in 1774. The Gainsborough portrait is current ...

At the National Gallery of Art, there are 986 works by black ... being peeled away from the canvas to reveal a portrait of an enslaved black woman. Kaphar re-creates well-known historical ...

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 ...

The painting was acquired back ... lived on Carondelet Street in New Orleans. “Portrait of Leana and the Lambeth Children” also includes a Black woman, who historian and genealogist Ja ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for R245 million at auction, setting a new record for a living ...

Fine artist Latoya Hobbs is inspired by the ordinary yet remarkable happenings of Black women’s lives. Whether it’s the tender silence surrounding a mother cradling her child in bed ...

When taking X-ray and infrared images of a "portrait depicting ... Courtauld Institue of Art in London discovered that underneath the portrait was a painting of a woman. Historians found the ...