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.

The quirky public art pieces along Route 66 are part time capsule, part creative canvas. From fiberglass giants to a man-made ...

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East Bay painter makes it her practice to step into the light, wherever it may lead, over decades of her career.

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The Black artist painted a 20-foot, 1,000-pound mural golf tee structure commemorating Black caddies in the game.

Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover ...

As an example of this, Fischer relates a story from the 1990s. She was working on a painting that her son modeled for titled, ...

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Are Guggenheim retrospectives a blessing or a curse for artists? Ross Bleckner shares what happened after his 1995 solo show.