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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...