Black Art

The erasure and restoration of "Bélizaire" inspired us to put together a list of 10 other historic Black artworks you should know about.

Janelle Monáe partnered with Martell to honor the art of Loïs Mailou Jones with a reimagined Little Paris Group at The Bishop Gallery in BK.

Celebrating Black History Month, we hit up Harlem for a new art exhibit from the eyes of 17 Black artists with vivid American stories to tell.

The Black art movement in Florida is getting a huge pay day thanks to lawmakers that were able to secure $30 million in funding for African American history museums that could use the financial help within the state.

Mary Schmidt Campbell, president of Spelman College and lover of art’s new book, An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden, looks into the life of  the great artist Romare Bearden. Campbell met Bearden when she was a grad student in New York in the 1970s. After seeing his art at a museum she […]

Bill Cosby was arrested last week, arraigned, and may stand trial in Pennsylvania for an alleged sexual assault case dating back to 2004. As much as I deplore the allegations against Cosby – more than 50 women have accused Cosby of raping them – I believe the extensive African-American art collection that Cosby, and his […]

  Annie Lee, artist, humanitarian and friend of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, has died and the loss leaves a huge void in the Black creative space. Ms. Lee was an internationally recognized artist whose work depicted varying scenes of the African-American experience. Lee, born in Gadsden, Ala. in 1935, was raised primarily in Chicago, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — After amassing a private collection of African-American Art over four decades, Bill Cosby and his wife Camille plan to showcase their holdings for the first time in an exhibition planned at the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art announced Monday that the entire Cosby collection will go on view […]