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His designs helped make fashion an art form, freeing women’s bodies from corsets with fantastical garments such as harem ...
If Matisse, together with the other two co-founders of the Fauves, Derain e Vlaminck, was the first to understand the symbolic and revolutionary impact of African art, Picasso fully developed the ...
Chosen to direct the world’s most important art show next year, she leaves a legacy of building institutions, uplifting artists and educating through art.
Addressed to Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, (the former curator of the National Museum of African American Art and Culture who oversees 19 Smithsonian museums in his new role ...
Koyo Kouoh, the CEO and Chief Curator of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, died at 57 in Switzerland. The museum confirmed her sudden passing and has closed its ...
It’s one of the first works that visitors to this year’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair will see if they enter through the venue’s Pine Street doors. Held annually in London, Marrakech ...
This retrospective of Maurice de Vlaminck is the first in nearly 100 years and gives an overview of the French painter’s work that goes beyond his early fauvist period and bold use of bright colours.
Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism ...
The model, Morton says, symbolizes what he believes is missing in fine art: the fair representation of black people. Artists say African Americans are absent from historical art collections in ...