The Crowd: ‘Mystical Black Tie’ gala brings $2 million to OCMA, fetes artist CEO and director of OCMA Heidi Zuckerman, center, with Art Sense co-chairs Alexandra Airth, left, and Reesa Emadi.

Fine artist Ray Brown is the 2025 SEWE featured artist, bringing his distinctive black-and-white charcoal animal portraits to this year's exhibit in Charleston.

But as Laguna Art Museum’s new exhibit, “Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation” demonstrates, black and white can contain multiplicities.

The Iranian-born visual artist has made her home country's turbulent history the subject of high art. The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., is hosting a retrospective of her work.

To Johnson, the revival of the spiritual “marked a change in the attitude of the Negro himself toward his own art material; the turning of his gaze inward upon his own cultural resources.” ...

The artists noé olivas and Patrisse Cullors outside Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles, where their show, “Freedom Portals,” is running through April 8.