Black Art

Sculptor Radcliffe Bailey, known for promoting Black history through his art, died on Tuesday in Alabama. His death was confirmed by his brother. Bailey had been battling brain cancer for many years. He was 55 years old. Radcliffe…

Lubaina Himid, whose career surged in the last decade, has won the Maria Lassnig Prize for mid-career artists, along with its $55,000 prize money. Himid has had an influential career spanning over four decades. By combing sculptures and…

A 10-foot sculpture of a seated woman by artist Tschabalala Self was vandalized with white spray paint last week. The vandalism act occurred on May 15, when some unknown perpetrators entered the park and spraypainted the statue, which is…

Local groups are raising funds to preserve the childhood home of Henry Ossawa Tanner in Philadelphia, which is in ruins. Henry Ossawa Tanner is notable as one of the first Black Americans to make a name for himself in the international…

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) in Wisconsin has been accused of ‘institutional racist violence’ by Black female artists. The Black artists were participating in the Wisconsin Triennial, a regional art exhibition organized…

Samella Lewis, artist and writer who famously documented African-American art history, died at 98. Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, confirmed that Lewis died on Friday due to natural causes. Samella Lewis was a pioneer in…

Educator Colette Pierce Burnette has been chosen as the new chief executive and president of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Newfields. With this, Colette Pierce Burnette becomes the first Black woman to lead the museum in its…

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given artist Derrick Adams a $1.25 million grant to create an archive in Baltimore, dedicated to Black culture and artists. The Black Baltimore Digital Database (BBDD) will be an archive that aims to…

The National Gallery of Art has acquired “The Flag Is Bleeding” by Faith Ringgold for its collection. The painting, made in 1967,  was part of the American People series by Faith Ringgold. The work, which is the first Ringgold painting…

Murals celebrating Black women activists will pop up in Brooklyn this summer, starting with Juneteenth. The first of these murals will be unveiled today. The work is the creation of artist-activist Helena Metaferia, who is primarily…