An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

Opening September 16, 2021, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, a new exhibition examining the representation of Black women in the ...

William Alfred Ismay, "Photograph of Ladi Kwali at a pottery demonstration in England" (c. 1970s), photograph (color) (courtesy York Museum Trust. The W.A. Ismay ...

The art market was historically a white-dominated domain. With growing liberalism and a supportive sociopolitical space, black, and especially black women artists are generating increasing interest.

A Black female warrior, drenched in blood, holds a sword. Chain mail hangs from her head. She’s there one second and gone the next. This vision came to Delaney George in a dream, informing her ...

As a young girl, Elizabeth “Betty” Catlett—born in Washington, D.C., likely in 1915—spent a great deal of time with her grandparents, who had been born into slavery and who took care to teach the ...

Pharrell Williams has a new art exhibit aimed at celebrating Black womanhood. Pharrell Williams is the mastermind behind a new art exhibition in Paris, France, which he curated “to be an homage to ...

Kouoh, who was born in Cameroon and currently leads one of Africa’s most important art museums, will organize the 61st edition, in 2026. By Alex Marshall Koyo Kouoh, one of Africa’s pre-eminent ...

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning, a group of African American women banded together with purpose: support one another as quilt artists and capture and promote the culture of their community ...

Koyo Kouoh has been chief curator and executive director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town since 2019. Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images “It is a once-in-a-lifetime ...