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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Jacqueline Kennedy’s ivory silk taffeta wedding dress was one of the most talked-about pieces of clothing of the 20th century ...

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, ...

Know the voices that uplift spirits! Reveal the most influential black female gospel singers who've shaped the music with ...

Rhiannon Giddens is an award-winning artist whose new project tells the story of the U.S. transcontinental railroad — a story told through the eyes of its builders, including African American ...

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 ...