And because this is America, those two singers are the same person: Rhiannon Giddens, an electrifying artist ... 20th century, the classic five-string banjo had faded from African-American culture ...

This epic, originally two four-hour films telling four stories over 2500 years of human history, made the biggest unadjusted ...

The artist reimagines the Divine Comedy through an anti-colonial lens in three exhibitions across Lehmann Maupin’s galleries ...

To no one’s surprise, Billboard has crowned Beyoncé the greatest pop star of the 21st century ... Taught by African American Studies and Music Professor Daphne Brooks, the course will dive ...

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In a survey of art experts, Thomas’ 2010 collage was named one of the most significant artworks of the 21st century ... Thomas, an African-American Yale-trained artist in her 40s who lives ...

Sherald’s show comes at what feels like an important art-historical moment. This spring, four major Manhattan museums are having one-person shows of African American artists. In addition to the ...

While most of the art selected is contemporary, “Luminosity” will also display work by Robert S. Duncanson, a 19th-century landscape painter who is considered to be the first African American ...

Largely made up of the personal collection of David and Carmen Kreeger, this museum favors 19th and 20th century paintings ... of more than 40,000 pieces includes artwork by African American artists, ...

Toward the end of the 20th century and going into the beginning of the 21st century ... The area was this booming African American business and residential district and was most famous for ...

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

Among the treasured works are pieces from renowned 20th-century African American artists, including Jacob Lawrence and Elizabeth Catlett. And Amy Sherald, the painter commissioned to paint ...