Simone Leigh’s art consists mainly of sculptures and installations. Her works always concern Black women, their history, and their experience and strength. She is from Chicago and based in New York.

The New Orleans Museum of Art is facing sharp criticism for hiring a white woman to become its new Francoise Billion Curator of African Art rather than hiring a Black person.

Faith Ringgold at her home in Englewood, N.J., in 2020. She was best known for what she called “story quilts”: large panels of unstretched canvas, painted with narrative scenes in vivid acrylics.

Art history classes overlooked or denigrated Black-produced art as “primitive” and unworthy for study. History classes distorted—or denied—racism, viewing the world through a white lens.

“It’s only in the 20th century that you see something of a shift,” says Eshun, whose major group exhibition, “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure,” is currently on ...

Camille Potts, of Charleston, before fiber and mixed-media works depicting Black mermaids at the City Gallery on May 31, 2023. Adam Parker/Staff ...

Throughout Black history, there has been a long, sad and often nasty tradition of attempts to censor popular art forms, from the characterization of the blues, ragtime and jazz as “the devil’s ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The new temporary exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “The Time Is Always ...

“Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” is on display at Mia, 2400 Third Ave. S., Minneapolis, through July 13. Admission to the exhibit is $20 (free for those 17 ...