A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the ...

The cover of photographer and aspiring cinematographer Varun Jinka’s coffee table book, Un/Framed Lives (Anvikshiki Publishers), features a stark black-and-white image framed by a vibrant ...

And until now, their faces were recognizable only in grainy black-and-white photographs. Davis based all but one of the portraits on those historic images. For that one, he used an image of the ...

I didn’t know at the time I was the first Black hire, but I hoped that I could open the door for others," Jimmy Smith said.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

and the photo is in black and white. The first lady's X account posted the new portrait with a simple caption: "First Lady Melania Trump's Official White House Portrait." The portrait was taken by ...

In the quiet corners of art history, where narratives often fade into obscurity, one name is finally reclaiming its rightful ...

A range of interpretations and depictions of the Black figure is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through ...

I served as the lead historian and researcher for an exhibition where three of these portraits ... Making Black Freedom in the World,” at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American ...

The venue gave Black artists a place to introduce their paintings and sculptures and a way to sidestep the limitations of a mainstream art market dominated by white artists and gallery owners.