During the period from 1950 to 1965, Ben Enwonwu was the most famous artist of African ancestry anywhere in the world. He produced a sculpture of Queen Elizabeth II, traveled to the United States as a ...

Two of the twentieth century's most important painters, Wifredo Lam and Jean-Michel Basquiat, share a room with a selection ...

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, ...

Carrie Mae Weems, “I Looked and Looked but Failed to See What So Terrified You (Louisiana Project series)” (2003), digital prints (diptych), 35 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (all images by the author for ...

Kim Dacres' 2022 sculpture "Sojourner" (foreground) and April Bey's 2023 painting "I Will Never Ask ANY OF YOU for Respect, I Will Demand It" (back wall) are among the works on display in the Modern ...

Gerri McCritty said she honors Black art and its power to educate and inspire. The 65-year-old native of Liberia features African and Afrocentric artwork at PAVAA Gallery, the 632 N. Christian St. art ...

On a recent weekday morning, some two dozen smartly dressed art enthusiasts gathered at Tate Modern before its doors opened for a private tour of the expansive solo exhibition of South African visual ...

It was a painting in the lobby of a Benin hotel last year that changed the way Afrobeats star Mr Eazi thought about art. “I saw this piece by (Benin-based artist) Patricorel of two skeletons sitting ...

Wedged in the corner of the Arts & Crafts Cooperative, Inc., or ACCI’s, overflowing floorspace is a small white-walled cube dedicated entirely to its new exhibition: “The Freedom of Art.” ACCI’s ...

Mr Eazi is a Nigerian Afrobeats star celebrated for pioneering Banku music, which fuses Ghanaian Highlife with the chord progressions and passions of Nigeria. A serial entrepreneur, he founded emPawa ...

Marguerite Kirsten, a fine artist from Cape Town, fought off stiff competition from visual artists from across Africa to take top honours in the 2018 Absa L’Atelier awards (www.Absa.africa). Her ...