When the acclaimed touring exhibition Solidary & Solitary reaches the BMA, it will significantly expand to more than 80 paintings, sculptures, and mixed media works and take on a new title, ...

Banner image: Rashid Johnson, a painter, sculptor, installation artist and filmmaker, in his Long Island, N.Y., studio on Dec. 16, 2020. (Credit: Jon Henry) When Megan O’Grady looks at a painting, she ...

Installation view of the first gallery in Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art (installation photo courtesy BMA, by Mitro Hood) Jack Whitten, “9-11-01” (2006) acrylic and mixed media on canvas ...

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression. Howardena Pindell, a ...

Art historian Kellie Jones gave a keynote speech Saturday morning at the Saint Louis Art Museum that had all the intricacy and spirit of an Oliver Jackson assemblage or an Eric Dolphy saxophone ...

With its chief characteristic being a breakaway from form, abstraction grants Black artists and Black viewers something they don’t always have in the material world — complete freedom. “It’s about the ...

Marshall McLuhan once wrote, “The medium is the message.” For Galerie Maximillian owner Albert Sanford, his medium is art. Since 1997, he has consistently shown some of the finest works on paper by ...

Alteronce Gumby has had quite a year. After closing his highly successful dual-site exhibition, “Somewhere Under the Rainbow/The Sky Is Blue and What Am I,” this past summer at False Flag and Charles ...

'Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art' [on view September 29, 2019 - January 19, 2020] offers a sweeping new perspective on the contributions black artists have made to the evolution of visual ...

The Baltimore Museum of Art doesn’t wish to renovate American art history by placing more black artists in leading roles. Since 1999, Pamela J. Joyner and her husband, Alfred J. Giuffrida, have been ...