A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the risk of the artwork leaving the United Kingdom. The anonymous painting ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

STAN: WE SPOKE TO THE ORGANIZATION ABOUTTS I IMPORTANCE. >> IT IS CALLED THE ESSCEEN OF A BLACK WON.MA AND THEY SHOWCEDAS EXPERIENCES OF BLACK WOMEN. THIS PIECE SHOWS THE BEAUTY OF A BLACK WOMAN WHILE ...

Opening September 16, 2021, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, a new exhibition examining the representation of Black women in the ...

In Mickalene Thomas' art work, Black women are front and center. Her subjects are often at leisure, resting on couches and chairs, sometimes nude, and frequently accentuated by rhinestones and rich ...

When visual artist Teresa Hopson noticed a gap in Charlotte’s art scene, she drew up a proposal for an exhibit featuring Black women artists. Hopson received a $3,000 Artist Support Grant from the ...

Kouoh, who was born in Cameroon and currently leads one of Africa’s most important art museums, will organize the 61st edition, in 2026. By Alex Marshall Koyo Kouoh, one of Africa’s pre-eminent ...

As a young girl, Elizabeth “Betty” Catlett—born in Washington, D.C., likely in 1915—spent a great deal of time with her grandparents, who had been born into slavery and who took care to teach the ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art has sparked outrage over its decision to hire a white woman as its new curator of African art — citing her “breadth of experience” in the field — rather than a person of ...

U.K. government officials have placed a temporary export bar on an “extremely rare” 17th-century painting of a Black woman and a white woman sitting side-by-side as equals. The artwork titled, ...

Koyo Kouoh has been chief curator and executive director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town since 2019. Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images “It is a once-in-a-lifetime ...