In “We Don’t Talk About Carol,” former journalist Sydney Singleton discovers the diary of an aunt she never knew she had.

Her likeness was rendered by another Texas legend, Kermit Oliver, who was the first Black artist to be represented by a major ...

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum is spotlighting the men and women who fought to end slavery but received little ...

Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism ...

Four of the portraits feature trailblazing African Nova Scotian women educators: Martha Eleanor Jones (1860-1918), Willena ...

A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with ...

As a property-owner, he became one of the very first Black British ... the Creole Portraits III: “bringing down the flowers…” (2010–11), as a tribute to the many enslaved women whose ...

"Comparing being a redhead to being Black might feel edgy or even affirming to some," a licensed therapist told Newsweek.

Janice Frame, a renowned artist and longtime Island resident, conveys the radiance and strength of African people, as well as ...

Saara Pritchard, an art adviser, was visiting a friend in Miami when a painting in the bedroom caught her eye. Bordered in silver leaf, it was a close-cropped, black-and-white image of John F. Kennedy ...

The frequently immobile camera watches as Radhika Apte’s Uma shuffles around her one-room box of a home, staring into the ...

In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and ...