Several generations of Black women met to discuss how their hair has shaped the way others see them and how they see themselves.

The film "Right On Be Free" emphasizes the importance of art and community in the African American experience. It calls for black individuals to engage with their heritage through artistic expression, ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...

George E. Johnson, the man who put black hair care on the map, built a business with profit sharing, health care, and college tuition reimbursement, and his life became iconic, but he never ...

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, ...

braiding continues to evolve as an art form, a cultural code and a powerful connection to something greater. In a world that still too often tells Black people to conform, African American hair ...

Stories of Race and American Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is seen on Friday, March 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) The National Museum of African American ...

Regardless of where you are in the world, this list is your guide to the Black art exhibitions that are challenging expectations and expanding the conversation—all while reminding us why we show ...

Perhaps, art imitates life as a model for how Black women tend to show up in the ... people and Self utilizes silhouettes, expressions, hair and nails as signifiers of femininity throughout ...

Clark Atlanta University Art ... Black abstractionists rejected the limitations of Social Realism and the rejection of Jackson Pollock and his ilk as the sole originators of the first all-American ...

I look over at the Jack in the Box; employees are staring through the glass storefront at us — dozens of Latinos, Blacks, and Asian Americans ... a center of Black Los Angeles art and culture.

And then there are the American creators famed for their ... been long awaited at Paris's flagship modern art museum, despite a strong black, African and Caribbean presence in the French capital ...