A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

I'd found a number of portraits that depict their black subjects as real people, not caricatures, and Joseph Johnson's was one of those. It was etched by John Thomas Smith in 1815 and appeared in ...

When British documentary photographer Andrew Jackson moved to Montreal in 2017, he did what he always does in a new city: he googled, “Where are the Black spaces?” The first result was Little Burgundy ...

The National Portrait Gallery is tracing the Black figure throughout portraiture with its spring exhibition, ‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure’, with curator Ekow Eshun uniting ...

The exhibit at the MFA showcases more than 100 works by John Wilson, a Roxbury native. Through his drawings, paintings and ...

Shyne's powerful eye is one of the reasons "Seeds," a lyrical portrait of Black farmers in the American ... or authoritative talking heads. When the people of Shyne's film do speak directly ...