Welancora Gallery shines a spotlight on 81-year-old artist Helen Evans Ramsaran, who makes bronze sculpture inspired by ...

An exhibition focuses on Belle da Costa Greene, librarian and first director of the Morgan Museum & Library—a Black woman ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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, ...

Explore the legacy of famous Black singers from the 1950s, from Little Richard to Ray Charles and their influence on music ...

Perhaps Lowe’s most famous dress was the one ... including the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the Henry ...

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

I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973 edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. It was the ...

From longtime titans such as Carl Icahn to recent superstars like Bill Ackman, here are seven of the most famous American investors and what you might learn from them. Investment style ...