Here are seven Black women artists and filmmakers whose work will continue to influence and disrupt the cultural landscape in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two artists are making a name for themselves locally and internationally through their organization consisting of more than 30 female artists. Dana Todd Pope and Martha A. Wade are ...

The ESSENCE Black Women in Sports Portrait Studio came to life in Vegas as the city was bubbling with excitement ahead of Super Bowl LVIII. The studio stood as a space and a testament to the spirit of ...

On weekends we’d take the bus into the city—my father, my younger brother, and I. We lived in Brooklyn then, in Flatbush; this was in the late sixties, when I was nine or ten. My father didn’t live ...

In Mickalene Thomas' art work, Black women are front and center. Her subjects are often at leisure, resting on couches and chairs, sometimes nude, and frequently accentuated by rhinestones and rich ...

Last year, artist Simone Leigh represented the U.S. at what is widely considered the world’s most important exhibition of contemporary art, the Venice Biennale. She was the first Black woman to have ...

The reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem, after seven years of construction, comes with dazzling alumni and collection shows. The conceptual artist David Hammons created a black, red, and green ...

“This is all the result of a dream,” Mouhamed Seyni Guèye, the imam of Dakar’s Mosque of the Divinity, told me as we walked its grounds. One night in 1973, Guèye dreamed of a grand mosque set on a ...

Pharrell Williams has a new art exhibit aimed at celebrating Black womanhood. Pharrell Williams is the mastermind behind a new art exhibition in Paris, France, which he curated “to be an homage to ...