Toronto's AGO relied on historians, botanists, and Dutch genealogy hobbyists to identify painter and sitter in a rare 18th ...

Curators at the gallery are now piecing together the transatlantic journeys of Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman who ...

Inside The ARC (Arts & Recreation Center) in Opa-locka, visitors moved slowly from portrait to portrait, often stopping ...

Black women artists have persistently transformed modern art through their presence in museums and galleries as well as ...

After six years of research that ranged from botany to genealogy, the Art Gallery of Ontario has identified the sitter of an ...

Zendaya, Coco Jones, and more step into the ESSENCE VIP Portrait Studio at the 2026 Black Women in Hollywood ceremony.

As a child, Mae Upperman remembers sitting on porches with loved ones, talking over lemonade and cookies under the summer sun. This was one of the most joyful parts about growing up as a Black girl, ...

Learn about four LGBTQ+ women who were featured in projects across the Smithsonian Meredith Herndon Audre Lorde speaking at the Third World Gay Conference in 1979. Collection of the Smithsonian ...

The renowned artist’s exuberant portraits celebrate Black history and take the form to a new level By Jacoba Urist Photographs by Celeste Sloman Bisa Butler’s portrait of Harriet Tubman began with a ...

D. Smith's documentary, which nabbed two awards at Sundance and is screening in Berlin, chronicles the lives of four trans sex workers in Atlanta and New York. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic ...

As a young Black woman and daughter of two immigrants, that was the surest way to say the quiet part out loud: that a Black ...