There are countless examples of the ways that Black creativity in America has literally changed the world — from jazz, rock, and hip-hop, to soul food, to literature, to the power of a picture. The ...

Spring is often a season of rebirth—but in museums across the globe, it’s also becoming a season of reckoning, remembrance, and radiant creative expression. This year’s slate of exhibitions centering ...

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, ...

A vistior to the Philadelphiia Museum of Art stops to gaze at Thomas J Price's larger-than-life sculpture of a woman, titled ''As Sounds Turn to Noise.'' It is part of an exhibit, ''The Time Is Always ...

It was a fitting backdrop for Black Girls in Art Spaces’ first gathering of the year. The arts community founded by Dallas resident Kaci Merriwether-Hawkins exists to champion the work of Black ...

Arts research never sleeps, with dozens of discoveries and news stories breaking each week about our favorite artists, styles, and periods. The examination of Black artists and sitters throughout art ...

From Oakland to Brooklyn, these Black-owned art galleries are more than just exhibition spaces—they are incubators for creative expression, cultural dialogue, and community power. Rooted in purpose ...

Categorizing Black artists’ work into a simple framework or single aspect of American art history would be impossible. These creations are endlessly evolving, comprising every sort of style and medium ...

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On weekends we’d take the bus into the city—my father, my younger brother, and I. We lived in Brooklyn then, in Flatbush; this was in the late sixties, when I was nine or ten. My father didn’t live ...

When she first heard about the opening of an art exhibit curated by a pair of musical savants, Leslie Barlow, a Black artist and instructor in the Twin Cities, booked a flight to Brooklyn. “They were ...