Paintings that reveal the inner lives of gay black men and a show devoted to a studio assistant who has made iconic works for big-name artists. Plus: the work of African blacksmiths and the ...

Detail of Jan Steen, Dutch (1626-1679). "Fantasy Interior with Jan Steen and the Family of Gerrit Schouten," ca. 1659-1660. Oil on canvas, 33 3/8 x 39 13/16 inches. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ...

A Jonathan Lyndon Chase painting gives black queer men, like myself, ... sought to rethink what it means to give black men power and sexiness on the canvas in the early 2000s.

Ajanku has been an artist for her entire life. “I sat at the knees of my quilt-making grandmother,” Ajanku said. “My other grandmother was a crochet hobbyist. Those are the hands that formed ...

AMSTERDAM — Rembrandt’s 1661 painting, “Two African Men,” is one of the Dutch old master’s more inscrutable works.One man, dressed in a Roman-style costume and shawl, seems to be giving ...

Laolu Senbanjo has worked with celebrities such as Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong’o and Serena Williams. Now the artist is turning his attention to malaria, creating a visual language called “The ...

Sello Letswalo (33) stands as a pioneering multimedia artist whose innovative approach to painting and sculpture is reshaping contemporary African art. With a background rooted in visual arts ...

There’s a lot going on in Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s chaotic paintings of gay black men, often in sexual congress. They capture the inchoate feelings of intertwining oneself with another body, ...

Basquiat's art depicting the struggles of Black men in a white-dominated world, sold online for $41.9 million at Christie's Hong Kong.

With the global art market valued at over 67 billion dollars, art sales have generated approximately 40 million transactions worldwide. Canvas Cultures is an online marketplace at the forefront of ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — American artist Kehinde Wiley unveiled a series of large-format portraits of African leaders in Morocco on Tuesday, building on his now famous 2018 portrait of former U.S ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — American artist Kehinde Wiley unveiled a series of large-format portraits of African leaders in Morocco on Tuesday, building on his now famous 2018 portrait of former U.S ...