R enowned artist Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait ...

Amy Sherald said the National Portrait Gallery was considering removing her piece, Trans Forming Liberty, a painting that ...

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 artist Amy Sherald has canceled a major exhibition of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing ...

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.

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.

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.

It’s fitting that the first of the “Legacy” portraits will be of Miami matriarch Nancy Dawkins, who turned 100 a few months ago. I spoke with Dawkins recently and was delighted at her still ...

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.

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 ...