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.

From Birmingham to St. Louis, Black tailors have been keeping dandyism alive for decades. Ahead of The Metropolitan Museum of ...

Figures like Du Bois, Hurston, and Baldwin stitched freedom into fabric—not out of vanity but vision. To revisit their style ...

“The artists are dreaming in Afrofuturism and surrealism, talking about the anxiety and the alienation of living in this ...

The “artist-reporter” Allan Rohan Crite’s straightforward depictions of ordinary Black city life challenged simplistic assumptions.

In November 2022, New York Magazine published “The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt ... to Santa Fe and prospered as an art dealer trading in Native American artifacts and cowboy paintings.

From land preservation to curated visitation tips to groundbreaking virtual reality, nonprofit provides tangible ways to honor a pivotal moment in American history ...

The 2025 Ruth First Memorial Lecture featuring Professor with Professor Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor of African Studies ... by Professor mattie brice, artist, designer, activist, UC Santa Cruz.

Kara Walker grew up wanting to be the next Charles Schulz. Instead, she’s creating a new and distorted American art history. Walker is known for works that layer silhouetted figures—usually ...

The experience transformed him and his art, and Kim Chong Hak is now renowned for expressive landscapes and botanicals that celebrate nature with a rare freedom of brushwork. “Kim Chong Hak, Painter ...