Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

Souwer is a process of painting on the back of the glass, a technique brought by Muslim pilgrims in the late 19th century to Senegal and still very popular to this day. The subjects of reverse glass ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Two groundbreaking exhibitions in Chicago explore the shift in portrayals of same-sex attraction. They are being staged at a ...

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

In June, our art critic toured seven art museums from Detroit to Kansas City. National turmoil crept into the frame.

Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

This exhibition shows off the glitz and glamour of the period while presenting a subtler message about the role of royalty in ...

It’s a rebellion of collective memory that resurfaces as images in Cunha’s curated exhibition ‘Retratistas do Morro’ at ...

In our second photo essay from Bengaluru’s popular Museum of Art and Photography, we showcase a range of artworks and curator ...