The Center for African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts was the first department of its kind in the nation when ...

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art reopened Monday, June 15, after locking its doors for three months to help suppress the coronavirus contagion. The Camp Street institution has taken measures to ensure ...

A woman attends the opening of an exhibition of South African abstract artist Christo Coetzee, who died in 2000 and is largely unknown in his home country, on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. The retrospective ...

The DIA’s collection of and interest in African American art is now one of the largest collections in the world, says DIA ...

Art hangs on the walls at the exhibition “Osi Audu: The Self in African Art,” at Opalka Gallery at Sage College on April 2 in Albany. A 2025 yarn on canvas piece ...

The new “Detroit Collects” exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts gives local collectors of African-American art center stage in a way few museums have done before. Pulling together 60 pieces of ...

There’s groundbreaking change afoot at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The most visible manifestation is in the lower-level special-exhibition space, where 57 works from artist Kehinde Wiley are on ...

Banner image: Rashid Johnson, a painter, sculptor, installation artist and filmmaker, in his Long Island, N.Y., studio on Dec. 16, 2020. (Credit: Jon Henry) When Megan O’Grady looks at a painting, she ...