“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations” is at NOMA through August 10, 2025.

Kenyan-American Artist Wangechi Mutu Makes Rome Debut with Groundbreaking multi-sensory Solo Exhibition at Galleria Borghese.

Ghanaian visual artist Amoako Boafo utilizes his unique perspective on African identity to create remarkable portraits that ...

Quilts carried during the migration of millions of Black people from the South star at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific ...

Phyllis Diller (July 17, 1917–August 20, 2012) is widely considered to be the first woman stand-up comic to perform as a solo act. To celebrate her 100th birthday in 2017, the Smithsonian worked with ...

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Thousands of sculpted heads - captive African men, women, and children - meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred gathering of ...

June 28, 9 a.m. (parade), 6-9:30 p.m. (fireworks display) $18 (ages 13 and under), $34 (student, military and senior ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...