The two murals at Vermont Law and Graduate School show the brutality of enslavement through images of a slave market, an enslaver brandishing a whip and a dog attacking someone. A Black administrator ...

The decision to award reggaeton artist J Balvin as Afro-Latino Artist of the Year last month is a familiarly puzzling and frustrating story. The musical genre — created by Afro-Panamanians and ...

Dame Dash and Nicky Licky (Image source: YouTube/Art of Dialogue) Dame Dash was buried under an avalanche of outrage and criticism when he had the audacity to compare his new artist to the late, ...

Why do white artists think the only way you can discuss race is through the suffering of people of color? Everyone, including the artist, agrees that Schutz doesn’t know what it means to be Black in ...

Sičáŋǧu Lakota artist Dyani White Hawk is known for her intricate, abstract large-scale beadworks. White Hawk ― arguably the busiest and most generous artist in town and a role model for many in ...

A painting currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao depicts a Black figure in a cowboy hat glancing over his shoulder against an abstract background of field and sky. The stark composition ...

It has been written about Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) that she honors Lakota culture while expanding its expression through new art forms and innovations. Better stated, she honors ...

The artist Howardena Pindell in her Bronx studio. Aundre Larrow “All the whiteness was getting on my nerves.” By Nicole Acheampong When the 82-year-old artist Howardena Pindell was a child, she saw ...

To the outward eye, 2023 has been a quiet year for artist and curator Anthony White. After his Limited Liability show closed at the Seattle Art Museum in January (the exhibition came after he won the ...

Guards at art museums keep quiet watch over visitors, avoid eye contact and sometimes follow people. The atmosphere isn’t always welcoming. Sičáŋǧu Lakota artist Dyani White Hawk wants to change that.

A Black administrator is trying to have slavery-related murals at Vermont Law and Graduate School removed, but the white artist who painted them isn’t letting them go down without a legal battle.