Black art is largely absent from the world's largest museums. ... Art so white: Black artists want representation (beyond slavery) in the Met, National Gallery. Nicquel Terry Ellis.

A rare painting, hailed as a “document of Black history,” is now part of the permanent collection at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Delaware. This near-pristine artwork offers a ...

In the painting, a teenage girl wears an elegant black dress, along with a white ruffled collar and bonnet. Encased in a hand-carved gold Dutch frame, the portrait was done on a cradled oak panel ...

WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in ...

Under this light, we engage more deeply with visceral scenes of Black families, communities, and traditions in the American Deep South. Holmes (b. 1984, Thibodaux, La.) draws on memory to depict ...

Restoration workers at 700-year-old medieval convent in Aversa found several forgotten paintings under the whitewashed walls, photos show.