The National Museum of African Art is dedicated exclusively to the collection, study, and exhibition of African art. The museum's primary aim is to foster and sustain public understanding and ...

Historically, people in the African Diaspora were treated by European painters as props or scenery rather than as subjects, so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of ...

The Art Institute’s massive survey wrestles with this vastness by bringing together a broad swath of African and Black art that reflects the beauty and nuance of the African story. Pan-Africanism, the ...

whose expressive portraits rendered in saturated colors were among her most widely known pieces. The painter and sculptor traveled throughout Africa to capture not only likenesses, but also landscapes ...

"The True Size of Africa" features 26 works that organisers say explore Africa, addressing its cultural history, intellectual ...

An artist says he has faced racism within the art world and has struggled to find galleries willing to display his portraits of black ... death of George Floyd, the African-American man who ...

Three photographers are exhibiting work that confronts the way African-Americans are often perceived in art, the workplace ... the eyes of the people in the portraits, it immediately counters ...