The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

Making Black Freedom in the World” uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the ...

The artist is opening a major solo show at London’s Gagosian with an installation paying homage to his childhood home. It’s all part of his plan to nurture the next generation.

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this ...

Architect Annabelle Selldorf took a light touch to a $220 million renovation of the beloved New York art museum.

At first blush, Christine Sun Kim’s fascination with language centres less on its poetics than on its conventions. Across the ...

The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a venerable New York cultural institution, is a portal to art across time!

A blockbuster show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris spotlights 300-plus works by 150 artists of African heritage ...

The stark black-and-white compositions do what Mapplethorpe did best: transform the socially unacceptable into formalist art through meticulous attention to light, shadow and balance.