Dozens of artworks owned by Marshall Marcell have spent the past century with the Louisiana State Museum. By Catherine Hickley In its founding years in the early 20th century, the Louisiana State ...

As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences, ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as a Black man. “My father used to draw Jesus as Black because God is ...

The artist, whose portraits explore leisure and repose, has suddenly found success in the notoriously fickle gallery world. The artist Danielle Mckinney, photographed at her Jersey City, N.J., studio ...

When Anne Johnson’s husband, Charles, underwent surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, she walked the halls as she waited and found the art “uplifting.” But she noticed none of the art ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - Paintings by two famous contemporary Black artists have now been acquired and are in display for patrons of the Spencer Art Museum in Lawrence. The University of Kansas ...

In her lifetime, Edith Hester MacDonald-Brown showed her paintings to friends and family but had little opportunity to share her talents with the wider world. Some 70 years after her death, however, ...

The five coal miners gaze out from their portraits, each with a lamp affixed to his headgear. Each man is nearly life-sized, clearly standing underground, and with an American flag half-furled in the ...

Under the precise and painstakingly positioned Fraxion 3 and Monopoint lights, camouflage patterns emerge from the shiny coat of a horse depicted on a monumental 10-foot wide, 7.5-foot tall canvas.

Monochromes were meant to change the world. They were meant to create a “zero point” for art, a relief from the artistic burdens of subject matter, form, and color, and to wash away all the history ...

Installation view of ‘Al Held: Black and White Paintings’ at Cheim & Read with “B/W XIV” (1968) at center (photo by Brian Buckley for Cheim & Read, New York; all images courtesy Cheim & Read) In 1967, ...