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Routed West” expands on a previous display of Black diaspora works from the 1940-to-1970 Second Migration period.
For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of ...
At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.
The model, Morton says, symbolizes what he believes is missing in fine art: the fair representation of black people. Artists say African Americans are absent from historical art collections in ...
Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism ...
Led by the husband-and-wife duo, Art Melanated is making a way for creatives of color—one exhibition at a time.
An upcoming exhibition featuring the work of LGBTQ+ African artists at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art has been postponed ... Truth and Sanity to American History,” which seeks ...
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of people joined a rally on May 3 to show support for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the wake of threats by the Trump administration and ...
The collection, from board member Ira Brind, will be available at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 2026.
A 12-foot-tall sculpture of a lady, perceived to be an African American woman has been erected ... is the brainchild of London-based figurative artist Thomas J Price. The medium reported that ...
Read full article: Vehicle crash on I-81N in Roanoke County causing 4-mile backup Harrison Museum of African American Culture logo (Courtesy of HMOAAC) (HMOAAC2025) ROANOKE, Va. – The Harrison ...
AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...