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What is the Met Gala's theme of Black dandyism? Art history offers up plenty of examples of this expressive form of menswear.
Hobbs’ art serves as a living altar to the multiplicity of Black women’s experiences. Calling the work “reverential,” her ...
"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" is the first Costume Institute exhibit to focus exclusively on Black designers.
When the email came from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques Agbobly at first didn’t quite believe it. The Brooklyn-based ...
A Bachardy portrait enacts an extended visual encounter between two people, its intimacy inescapable ... but oil painting was never an interest. Black-and-white drawings dominate the show ...
This week, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York opened the first ... flanked by her large-scale portraits of Black people. Their skin tones are rendered in shades of gray that contrast ...
"Most people have ... Hammond started his art career making big splashes with colorful portraits of animals. Now his canvas is a hard board with white chalk and layers of black India ink baked ...
“Zanele Muholi” is at the SCAD Museum of Art through July ... London lies another self-portrait, Xiniwe at Cassilhaus, North Carolina (2016). Rendered in the same black-and-white palette ...