At 24, Liz Montague became known as the first black female cartoonist ever published in the New Yorker. Her work mostly portrays a recurring theme -- brown skin, curly hair and brightly colored ...

Visual artist Mickalene Thomas uses her medium to spotlight the beauty of Black women in her paintings, collages and portraits. On Thursday, April 6 at 1:00 p.m. ET, Thomas joins Washington Post ...

Last April, Simone Leigh, 55, the first Black woman to have her work shown at the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, filled the venue with towering abstract sculptures of Black female forms ...

In 2024, LaToya Hobbs exhibited her life-size collection of art, Carving A New Tradition, at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Harvard Art Museums.

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 ...

JONES IS ONE of several contemporary Black women artists for whom minimalism — long marked by its hypermasculinity and by the conspicuous absence of nonwhite artists — has unexpectedly become ...

While the body art was very clearly paint, it simultaneously resembled jewelry and clothes. On Adams-Ginyard's wrists, Steel's art echoed long, regal, gold cuffs, which correlated with a collar ...

For years, the Black body was excluded from the history of art dominated by the West. It was placed on its periphery, sometimes as a subaltern subject, sometimes as an exoticised and eroticised ...