Articles

How Painting Portraits of Freedom Fighters Became William H. Johnson’s Life’s Work

The Year in Black Art: A Wealth of Blockbuster Exhibitions

The World Is Running to Catch Up With Simone Leigh

Collector Walter O. Evans Aims to Preserve the Legacy of African American Artists

Alma Thomas’ Signature Style Is Full of Color and Tiled Brushstrokes

Charles Philippe Jean-Pierre: An Artist on the Move

Five Black Women Artists Consider An Alternative Telling of the Atlantic Slave Trade

What Is Afrofuturism?

The Viability of Hotels as Alternative Art Spaces

Meet the Inhabitants of the Mythic World of Drexciya

For the Enslaved Potter David Drake, His Literary Practice Was His Resistance

Artist Holly Bass Wants to Expand the Notion of Performance Art, All While Championing Washington D.

New Jersey Artist Nyugen E. Smith Considers Climate Change in the Caribbean for CulturalDC

Werllayne Nunes Captures Magic Realism in His Paintings

At Abraham Lincoln’s Cottage, Artist Georges Adéagbo Pays Homage to the Great Emancipator

Coffee: A Color Study Embraces Brown’s Safety and Stability

How These Contemporary Artists Are Redefining Family and Kinship

In Diff’rent Strokes For Different Folks, Jay Durrah Creates Colorful, Organized Chaos

Close Looking: Betye Saar - Not Easily Expressed

How a Celebrated Artist Redesigned the Stars and Stripes to Mark His Pride in Black America

Putting the Nation Back in the National Gallery of Art

The Craft World is Undergoing a Democratization

Close Looking: John Biggers - Characterizing Symbolism

A Trio of Elizabeth Catlett Sculptures Convey the Power of Service to Humanity

These Artworks Reimagine the Legacy of the African Diaspora

How Black Men Changed the World

Photographer Ike Ude is Retelling Africa's Narrative with the Power of Portraiture

Black Abstraction: Symbolizing Reality for Meaning

Artist Toyin Oji Odutola Brings Us Closer to the Truth

Galerie Myrtis: Exhibiting Black Art at the Venice Biennale

Deborah Roberts' Investment in Time Pays Off

Locally Based Black Girls Who Paint Connects and Uplifts Its Artists

In Shoulder the Deed, Artists Reflect on the Present and the Past

Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle and Mend Uses Hair to Tell the Story of Black Life

Renee Stout: Working with Spirit

Abstracting Social Questions: The Work of Juan Logan

Tinkering with the Source: The Work of Martha Jackson Jarvis

Aminah Robinson: The Transformative Power of Her Art

Assemblage: Surpassing the Original Intent

Syd Carpenter: Making Her Mother's Garden

Still Life: Reckoning with Time

The Aesthetics of the Black Arts Movement

Activating an Afrofemcentric Critique

Art is a Family Affair: Relatives Working in Visual Art

Endorsed by the Ancestors: The Ascent of Charly Palmer

Art in the Age of an Awakening: Assessing the Artwork of Arthur Jafa

The Significance of the Black Lives Matter Mural

15 Enlightening Books About Black Art

Maurice Evans and Grace Kisa Bring Nu Africans to the Hammonds House

How Artists Are Bringing Us Together While Staying Apart