The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection features works by significant Black painters (including Romare Bearden) along with letters from Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

“This partnership is a dream come true and an opportunity to share the beauty of Black Masking culture with the world,” says Williams. Her connection to football runs deep – as the only girl ...

I love art that engages the present. When it embraces, subverts, loves, hates -- anything, that is, but ignores -- the visual, cultural and political landscape it's born into. Done well, it ...

Because the museum John Cotton Dana founded in 1922 didn't wait till the 21 st century to start collecting African-American art. The Newark Museum bought its first work by an African-American in ...

The new “Detroit Collects” exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts gives local collectors of African-American art center stage in a way few museums have done before. Pulling together 60 ...

As the anticipated International African American Museum gears up for a grand opening in 2020, we couldn’t help but find out what other black-centric museums and exhibits around the country are ...

“Black art means that sometimes I’m making when no one’s looking,” he says. “For the most part that has been the truth of our lives. Until we own the light, I’m not happy.

The DIA’s collection of African American art includes approximately 700 works by noted artists Robert Seldon Duncanson, Richmond Barthe, Elizabeth Catlett, Edward Clark, Mavis Pusey, and more.

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Museum of Art says that its purchase of Henry Ossawa Tanner's 1898 "Annunciation" was the first piece by an African American artist to be acquired by a major ...

She taught art at schools in Washington, D.C. for over 30 years and created abstract art on the side out of her home kitchen. Thomas was also the first African-American woman to have a solo art ...

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