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Black Artists

A marble bust of a woman in profile, showcasing detailed facial features, a textured hairstyle, and draped clothing, placed on a square pedestal against a neutral background.

One Fine Show: “Edmonia Lewis, Said in Stone” at the Peabody Essex Museum

The sculptor found her audience with political memorabilia and rose to international fame in her own lifetime
By Dan Duray
A Black woman in a halter top with a natural hairstyle poses with her face to the right in front of a blue backdrop

One Fine Show: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys at the VMFA

Exhibitions of art collections are not meant to be cohesive; this one is a mixtape where each track is strong even if it doesn't flow naturally into the next.
By Dan Duray
A black-and-white portrait shows a person with closely cropped hair and long locks at the back, turning their head slightly toward the camera with a calm, direct expression against a dark background.

Meet the Collector: Marques Redd On Stewardship, Memory and Collecting Beyond Value

The Redd Family Collection is, he tells Observer, "a river of memory carrying Black artistic vision forward into the present.”
By Simon Coates
A large painting of several men standing beside a white car on a city street, with pigeons flying overhead and graffiti on the background wall.

Devin B. Johnson Paints the Space Between Memory and Motion

By Elisa Carollo
A performer covered in clay bends forward with sculpted clay forms attached to their back, evoking themes of transformation, burden, and creation.

‘Body Vessel Clay’ Offers a Material Portal to the Ancestral Plane

By Chenoa Baker
An installation of a large, tie-dye-stained fabric suspended from the ceiling in a loose U-shape, evoking a hammock or draped banner, presented in a white-walled gallery space as part of the Innervisions: Black Abstraction exhibition.

In Atlanta, ‘Innervisions’ Conjures Black Abstraction as Ab-Ex’s Twin

By Leia Genis
A split image shows Nigerian artist Anthony Azekwoh standing in front of his artwork featuring two Black figures against a green background, alongside another of his paintings, which portrays a Black Jesus figure with a white crown of thorns against a red backdrop.

From Eden to Eternity: An Unintended Conversation On Blackness and Identity

By Ernest Nweke
Mixed media artwork of a Black woman lying on a sofa.

Mickalene Thomas On the Evolution of Her Practice and the Love in Her Work

By Elisa Carollo
Painting of a black and white american flag with "think" over

Two Shows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Remind Us There’s No Time Like the Present

By Elisa Carollo
A man in a deep green shirt stares moodily at the viewer in front of a painting of a woman in front of a colorful suburban landscape

Titus Kaphar On His Transition to Filmmaking and the Potency of Erasure

By Dan Duray
A man stands in front of a colorful abstract painting

A-List Agent Rich Paul Is Behind Sotheby’s Latest Contemporary Curated Sale

By Christa Terry
A collage of two adults in red and a smaller figure in black in the foreground surrounded by book pages

The Phillips Collection Looks at Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

By Stephen Wozniak
A main wearing a hat sits on a yellow milk crate in an artist's studio

Artist b. Robert Moore On Blurring the Lines Between the Personal and the Political in Art

By Christa Terry

With ‘Say It Loud,’ Destinee Ross-Sutton Is Making Sure Artists Get What They’re Owed

By Helen Holmes

Kyt Janae, Artist and Director at Foundation, Wants Creatives to Seize the NFT Moment

By Helen Holmes

Fred Moten Is Still Figuring Out How to Live, Just Like Everyone Else

By Helen Holmes

Star Theorist and Poet Fred Moten Has a Complicated Relationship With the Art World

By Helen Holmes

“The Digital Diaspora” Curator Diana Sinclair Talks NFTs, Afrofuturism, and Crypto

By Yume Murphy

Basquiat’s Estate Shoots Down an Attempt to Sell an NFT of One of His Sketches

By Helen Holmes

Dawoud Bey Retrospective at The Whitney Museum Honors Groundbreaking Photographer

By Nadja Sayej

‘Black Femme: Sovereign of WAP and the Virtual Realm’ Shines at Canada Gallery

By Yume Murphy

Lorraine O’Grady’s Retrospective at Brooklyn Museum Honors Long Career

By Anni Irish

Conversations with Sam Pollard and Lyle Ashton Harris on HBO’s ‘Black Art’

By Nia Tucker

Artist Dominic Chambers Has a New Vision of Black Intellectualism

By Teresa Xie
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