But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...

Philadelphia Museum of Art's newest exhibit, "The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," features 28 Black and African diasporic contemporary artists who use figurative painting, ...

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

Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter known for his distinctive portraits ... such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once,” the artist has explained. “The ...

His work explores historic African American stereotypes from the Antebellum South ... the Knox Art Gallery, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Housing the Met’s modern and contemporary art collection from 2030, the new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing is the ...

A new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York spotlights the legacy of Alvin Ailey, the founder of the ...

Artist Lorraine O’Grady has died at the age of ninety. Born in Boston in 1934, the American artist and writer was known for ...

African American fiber artists from across the nation are invited to participate in the 18th Annual African American Fiber Art Exhibition, In Praise of the Ancestors, a component of the ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...