The new “Detroit Collects” exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts gives local collectors of African-American ... fine art since the late 1980s with an eye toward abstract art and sculpture.

Time Trip Part Two #8,” 2003 (acrylic on rag paper, mounted on plexiglass), by Alvin Loving In the hands of their creators, African-American ... artists and abstract art is one not only of ...

Al Loving, an innovative abstract ... figurative art describing the black experience. Loving soon became what one reviewer called “probably the leading figure in the hot African American ...

“Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis” is a truly revelatory exhibition devoted to an African-American artist who was involved with the emergent Abstract Expressionist scene and has been ...

associate professor of art history and African-American Studies at Emory University in suburban Atlanta. A large abstract pastel drawing of furious energy called "Twin Tornadoes" by the late ...

Reframing art history ... collection—of African American art in private hands. In 2016, the collection was chronicled in Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art ...

“There is power in abstract art, not merely as a stylistic mode, but as a personal choice for generations of African-American artists,” says the former member of the Obama administration’s Committee ...

US President Barack Obama and his wife have decorated their private rooms and the Oval Office with a range of modern and abstract art, the White House says ... New pieces by contemporary ...

The American abstract artist died ... In 1972, Gilliam became the first African American to present work at the Venice Biennale, an international festival of art and culture dating back to 1895.