From Apollonia and Debbie Harry to Aimee Mann and Crystal Waters, we salute the unstoppable artists whose sounds, styles, and ...

In October 2021, the artist Serge Attukwei Clottey watched anxiously as a painting he had made just a few months earlier went up for sale at the Phillips auction house in London. The portrait — of a ...

Just when I thought that spring would never come, the forsythia and daffodils are out, and tender green leaves are beginning ...

These repetitions reveal a harrowing truth. Such a portrait is timeless as long as racial inequality far too frequently sinks ...

Four years after the Sister Act actress graced the steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she made her grand return for this year's "Tailoring Black Style" themed event. For her rare Met ...

The 19th-century equivalent of this was the rejection of makeup by upper-class women ... to paint their skin with white enamels to cheat this aesthetic and used eye paints in colors like black ...

In 1978, I was sent to Moscow as a reporter for Reuters news agency. It was the height of the cold war, and we worked mostly from the Soviet press and news wires, and from information provided by ...

And that is Hans Holbein and his court paintings ... along with purple. And that’s purely down to sumptuary laws, which are fascinating. Black was one of the most expensive dyes—that ...

Thomas J Price's 12-foot sculpture of a Black woman in Times Square is inspiring online debates about race and representation ...

Times Square's 12-foot Black woman statue sparks celebration, controversy, and political debate as it challenges public art ...

If you spot purple paint on your early morning hike, it might be best to turn around and find another route, because you might be trespassing. Many U.S. states abide by the "purple paint law ...