Over the years Mance added more and more portaits, in vivid colors and subtle shades, to complete a meta-portrait of black men in America. Mance began drawing black men because she felt the way ...

“I thought, ‘I can draw black men for who they really are,’” she says. “I was full of myself.” “Drawing #1000 is a portrait of Scott Poulson-Bryant. If you’ve ever picked up an issue of Vibe Magazine ...

Curated by Jonathan Carver Moore, this new exhibition confronts the emotional and political cost of assimilation—and dares to ...

The series of loose portraits in black soap and wax animates ... at the Whitney Museum of American Art offers one lens through which we might view “Anxious Men.” Motley’s early career ...

For example, the 1862 portrait "Men of Progress" by Christian Schussele ... The Met has made key acquisitions of black art in recent years, including the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift and ...

The conceptual artist Glenn Ligon, who examines the invisibility of people of color in America, last year titled an exhibition with James Baldwin’s quote “to be a Negro in this country is ...

There's a face-off at the Huntington Museum of Art near Los Angeles ... Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young Gentleman. The two young men are sportily dressed and look directly ...

About one year ago, Wilson was asked to do the Black-Diallo-Miller Hall portraits. However, his first art project with UGA ... artist friends … will say, ‘Man, your paintings breathe life.