Helen LaFrance was a self-taught folk artist primarily focused on memory paintings—vivid depictions drawn from her ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, which partnered with the modern Civil Rights Movement. In ...

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Lorraine O’Grady, an indefatigable conceptual artist whose work critiqued definitions ... she entered a float into the annual African American Day Parade in Harlem. It featured a large, gilded ...

My first visit to the capital city was a brilliant display of diversity with African American and minority cultures and ...

This year, we’ve had to say goodbye to many artists from the entertainment and fashion industries.Some of them left an ...

The California African American Museum in Los Angeles hopes to change that limited understanding with its current exhibition, ...

Lorraine O’Grady, an indefatigable conceptual artist whose work critiqued definitions ... or with Boston’s upper-middle-class African American elite. “I always felt that nobody knew my ...

Lorraine O’Grady, an indefatigable conceptual artist whose work critiqued definitions of identity, died in New York on Friday aged 90. Her gallery, Mariane Ibrahim, confirmed her death via email, ...

Nora Holt was the first Black person in the United States to earn a master’s degree in music. A prolific composer and a club-hopping socialite, she once wrote a 42-page work for a 100-piece orchestra.

The arts calendar for 2024 is positively stacked. There’s “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition showcasing paintings ...