A whirlwind of color and art at the opening of this year’s Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art in the Senegalese ...

I get chills recalling the sheer power of art that I felt in this room at the National Portrait Gallery, as if the genius loci of Washington, D.C. was standing next to me like a ghost.

Discover the inspiring journey of mixed-media artist Cyrus Nelson, who turned his passion for art into a successful career in Atlanta.

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...

History painting had an important place in the work of the old masters but had nearly disappeared with the rise of Modern art. Yet many African American artists embraced this neglected genre in ...

By Will Heinrich and Patricia Escárcega The first thing you learn from “Mexican Prints at the Vanguard” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is that printmaking has been central to Mexico’s ...

Greene is a self-taught artist specializing in painting and multimedia artwork that seeks to describe aspects of African American culture. “For me, creating and designing art on canvas is multi ...

By Morgan Malget This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. This fall, museums and ...

People visiting the Center for African American History, Art and Culture in Aiken are going to see a new face. Tourism Supervisor Ambria Abney started at the center in September. The CAAHAC ...

Visitors will see traces of Ukiyo-e, a Japanese woodblock print ... of African American and Japanese cultures. She combines bold, vivid colors reminiscent of traditional Japanese art with ...

Rock art found in South Africa, and painted two centuries ago, represents how the San people imagined extinct animals that they found in fossil form. This early rendering of these fossils could relate ...