Most people only know Sherald through photographs of this one work. But as Sherald has said, “I had a career before Michelle Obama.” This is more than evident in her new mid-career survey at the ...

The National Park Service edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on ...

This week, the Mattatuck Museum is exhibiting the art of Elizabeth Catlett, the first person, first woman and first African-American to earn a degree from this celebrated university. Can you name the ...

BLACK ENTERPRISE spotlights 19 Black women visual artists to honor and recognize for International Black Women's History ...

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, who were foundational to the Whitney’s founding in 1930, by presenting a new ...

As the concert business soars to new heights, five of its most powerful women have been on a tear ... digital boundaries,” Rhone says. South African artist Tyla’s Grammy-winning breakthrough ...

There’s no shortage of great arts institutions in the capital city. These are the classics and hidden gems that we like best.

Discover 13 influential books by Black women authors that explore identity, resilience, and justice through powerful ...

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers including the Air and Space Museum and the National ...

The "Four Ways of Being" portraits invite museum visitors to explore the complex ways our histories shape our understanding.

The US president has told the Smithsonian Institution, which operates 21 museums visited by 30 million visitors every year, ...