National Art Day is celebrated on October 25, which is also Pablo Picasso's birthday. So today, we are celebrating 10 Black ...
The New Orleans Museum of Art has sparked outrage over its decision to hire a white woman as its new curator of African art — citing her “breadth of experience” in the field — rather than a person of ...
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 ...
Simone Leigh, an American sculptor, will represent the United States at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth Come April 2022, sculptor Simone Leigh will represent the United ...
West African graffiti has evolved from banned vandalism into accepted street art, with murals now reflecting regional culture ...
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 ...
Renowned artist Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery over concerns that a painting of a Black transgender woman would be ...