The grand entrance to the exhibition “Project a Black Planet” at the Art Institute displays an African cultural pantheon created by Hale Aspacio Woodruff in 1952. (Provided by AIC) ...

After police told the group that they couldn’t guarantee the white supremacists wouldn’t cause harm, the group of 50 to 75 artists left the retreat early.

Black Dimensions curated its first major exhibit, “Black Artists in Historical Perspective I,” as part of the nation’s bicentennial in 1976 at the Albany Institute of History & Art.

The Art Institute of Chicago’s Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is massive, featuring 350 works of art, with paintings, sculpture, video and audio, as well as historical ...