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The Royal of Academy of Arts presents the largest survey of the artist's work ever presented outside of the U.S.
A Black artist’s Thurgood Marshall replaces portrait of a likely enslaver For 300 years, Maryland’s seat of power has featured art of White men. The images are changing.
R enowned artist Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait ...
Glyn Philpot’s sensitive portraits of Black subjects, unusual for the early 20th century, were given updated titles — and consideration — for a recent exhibition in England.
During the Jim Crow era, when minstrel shows and racist caricatures accounted for nearly all visual representations of Black people in distinguished self-portraits that shattered stereotypes.
The portraits capture the stories of who people are, and who they want to be. One of her most recent works, created over seven months, is now featured at the Newark Museum of Art.
Amy Sherald — the visionary behind Michelle Obama’s iconic portrait — is once again making history. Next fall, she will become the first contemporary Black artist to have a solo exhibition ...
The stars are Barack and Michelle Obama, whose portraits were commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and unveiled to a warm critical reception in February 2018.
But these black-and-white portraits are much more than they appear — they are people Washington met at the sites of police killings around the country. Portraits from "Black Lives . . ." ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — During the Jim Crow era, when minstrel shows and racist caricatures accounted for nearly all visual representations of Black people, hundreds of Black Virginians from ...
The Holsinger Collection features distinguished photographs taken by well-known Charlottesville photographer Rufus Holsinger and includes 611 portraits of Black subjects.
Revolutionary Black portrait exhibition opens at University of Virginia Richmond news and weather update for Saturday, Sept. 24 By: The Associated Press Posted 6:38 AM, Sep 24, 2022 ...