The Center for African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts was the first department of its kind in the nation when ...

The installation encompasses four galleries that tell the story of African American history chronologically from 1840 to 1986 ...

DENVER — The Denver Center for African Art has been showing artworks from art collectors around the country to educate others and preserve history. The nonprofit cultural education center shows a ...

Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

AFA copy 39088019753334 gift from Janet Stanley. "What do we have in mind when we talk about African art? This book examines the shifting answers to that question. Fluidly written, it is the first ...

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few decades, ...

For the occasion, the institution has also remodelled its lobby and put together a separate exhibition looking back at its ...

A new theory credits medieval Catalan art as Picasso’s inspiration for the iconic "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," but art historians are pushing back. Two people view Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles ...

Last week, the New Orleans Museum of Art trumpeted the hiring of a new curator to oversee the 112-year-old institution’s trove of traditional art from various African cultures. North Carolina native ...

The College Board reworked the recommended course material for its disputed Advanced Placement course in African American Studies, sharing an updated framework Wednesday that largely preserves the ...

Introduction -- Forming a field: colonial collecting, racial omissions, and national rivalries -- Celebrating form: from primitive to primitivism -- Creating visibility and value: photography and its ...