Opinion
First They Came for Black History
The erasure of African Americans from museum galleries is also a warning sign that any community's stories can be next.
African American
Features
30 NYC Monuments of Black Americans You Should Know
From Harriet Tubman to Duke Ellington, the city boasts a wealth of public art honoring Black individuals, the subject of a timely new book.
Art Review
The Self-Fashioning of the Black Dandy
The Met’s exhibition expands Black fashion history by centering ordinary individuals and their dress practices.
Art
The Story of Enslaved and Free Texas Potters, Told Sherd-by-Sherd
There is more to the history of H. Wilson and Co. Pottery and related sites than folklore holds.
Book Review
Serenading Entwined Lineages of Black Art and Music
Organized around the five components of a song, Nikki A. Greene dissects a lineage of sonic resonance and visual aesthetics in Grime, Glitter, and Glass.
Art
When Scandinavia Was a Hotbed of Black American Culture
Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century zeroes in on a far less charted corner of Black history than that of expats to Paris: the artists who ventured north.
Art
Kelli Morgan’s Fight to Champion Detroit's Black Artists
The curator and scholar launched the Black Artists Archive to honor overlooked histories and affect change in the present.
Art
Half a Century of Black Art in Detroit
An exhibition revisits the ongoing legacy of Gallery 7, a space dedicated to Black artists experimenting with abstraction and minimalism in the 1970s.
Books
Photographing the Lives of Black American Cowboys
The Long Ride Home brings together selections from Ron Tarver’s 15,000 images chronicling Black cowboy culture across the US.
News
An Early Portrait Commissioned by an American Born Into Slavery Goes on View
Now on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the painting is thought to depict Mary Ann Tritt Cassell, a mixed-race woman who lived in the 1800s.
Books
How the Black Meme Turns a Trope Into a Trap
Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.
Books
The Scholar Who Rewrote Black Brazilian History
Beatriz Nascimento’s groundbreaking research defied dominant White Brazilian academic narratives, instead emphasizing Black political agency.