A mystery in the Museum of Fine Arts exhibit “Class Distinctions": Who were those black men in the 350-year-old Dutch paintings?

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 ...

Entertainment Lifestyle Local news Contemporary African artist redefines art with steel canvas Sello Letswalo transforms the boundaries of contemporary art with a unique palette of steel and oil.

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 ...

Philadelphia-based Jonathan Lyndon Chase is giving black men back to themselves with his sought-after, still-evolving work.

In addition to Obama’s, the portraits also echo Wiley’s earlier works, in which young Black men appear in poses most associated with paintings of kings and generals.

Artist Kehinde Wiley puts power in a new frame with paintings of African leaders American artist Kehinde Wiley unveiled a series of large-format portraits of African leaders in Morocco on Tuesday ...

The period has long been associated with the portraits of its 17th-century white elite. But there are many overlooked paintings of black subjects, as an exhibition in Amsterdam shows.

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.

A painter’s new show ventures away from the past, toward contemporary traumas in Black lives. By Roberta Smith Titus Kaphar’s paintings have always been blunt in confronting both the paucity ...

From everyday black men and women on the street and rapper The Notorious B.I.G. to Michael Jackson and former US President Barack Obama, Kehinde Wiley is celebrated for his colorful, photo ...

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 ...