Thembisa S. Mshaka debuted the photo exhibition to honor the Black women whose creativity defined a global beauty language.

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The immersive event features photographers and other artists, along with a DJ, free food and mocktails, and live testimonials ...

Art revelers can also celebrate the richness of African art at Opa-locka’s The Art of Transformation, which will feature six ...

A Black female warrior, drenched in blood, holds a sword. Chain mail hangs from her head. She’s there one second and gone the next. This vision came to Delaney George in a dream, informing her ...

Kouoh, who was born in Cameroon and currently leads one of Africa’s most important art museums, will organize the 61st edition, in 2026. By Alex Marshall Koyo Kouoh, one of Africa’s pre-eminent ...

As a young girl, Elizabeth “Betty” Catlett—born in Washington, D.C., likely in 1915—spent a great deal of time with her grandparents, who had been born into slavery and who took care to teach the ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art has sparked outrage over its decision to hire a white woman as its new curator of African art — citing her “breadth of experience” in the field — rather than a person of ...

From the time she received a Kodak Brownie at age 10, South Africa-raised Constance Stuart Larrabee captured the world around her with an unsparing eye, ensuring her place as one of the 20th century’s ...