Rarely does an exhibition hold a dramatic surprise. Visitors to the Columbia Museum of Art now through Aug. 31, however, have ...

“Personal to Political” lives up to its name at Sarasota Art Museum. It showcases the work of 17 Black contemporary artists affiliated with Paulson Fontaine Press. They all get personal when it comes ...

An exhibition devoted to the African-American abstract painter highlights his energetic forms, tense lines and subtle political commentary.

A new book explores how painters, sculptors and writers, especially women and people of color, used their craft to advocate ...

Winding through the first-floor galleries, gazing at the 36 prints made by iconic African American abstract artist Sam Gilliam over three decades from 1972 to 2009, fails to prepare one for the ...

Forgery scandals, pioneering female painters, and the intersection between art and politics are among the season’s hot topics ...

Georges Braque, Still Life with Fish, 1941. Toledo Museum of Art. Work from some of the world’s most famous painters is coming to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki this June for new exhibition ...

• Downtown Street Eats: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday, through Oct. 10, bringing more than 80 of Metro Detroit’s best food trucks and restaurants to Cadillac Square and the Woodward Esplanade, ...

The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

While its symmetry and bold colors refer energetically to African art, it’s clearly more of a late modernist Western abstraction. That said, the mix of the two styles is pleasurably potent.

Famous for his hits with Sly and the Family Stone, the abundantly talented musician created infectious and enduring music in the 1960s and 1970s.

Joel Shapiro died June 14, at age 83. In the final weeks of the sculptor's life, Max Norman interviewed him for a ...