BMike Odums is using his art to amplify unheard voices and preserve New Orleans’s vibrant legacy. This story appears in the May/June 2025 issue of ESSENCE, on newsstands April 24.

Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie mines vampirism’s symbolic potential to tell a tale of exploitation and Black music in ...

Director Ryan Coogler and cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw reveal the key cinematic influences that shaped their ...

The costume worn by Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther during his Marvel Studios ... the shape’s long significance to the continent’s art and culture. Her emphasis on the essential dignity ...

Lineage + Inheritance,” an exhibition of new artwork by four, Black visual artists based in San Diego, serves as a kind of ...

Walt Disney Imagineering shared a sneak peek of the Black Panther statue that will be displayed in the Grand Hall of the ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong ...

An exhibit at the Centre Pompidou displays the creativity of Black artists from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, ...

Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter never imagined the humble “markings” she created on cardboard, canvas, and wood would one day sell at auctions for thousands of dollars.

His extensive writings about photography transformed ideas about the perception of the black body in art and photography. In this ambrotype, a glass-plate image made with a technology popular in ...

April 14, 2025 • Did you know there's an insect that can fling its pee 40 times faster than a cheetah accelerates? We did — thanks to a comic from the Bhamla Lab at the Georgia Institute of ...