The Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis (a Black American) befriended and mentored him; so did Willem de Kooning (a white European). Art allowed Whitten to bridge the country’s racial divides ...

Black-and-white documentary footage ... Across his video and painting work, he deploys subtle and sophisticated shifts in tone, texture and surface, showing how the slightest change of light ...

But for centuries, painters have intentionally purged color from their art as a way of ... think of 20th-century abstract artists as the ones who turned to black or white, but painters over ...

The world of art is a primarily white space that ... Kristen Woollery, a Black woman, is one such artist. Woollery’s unique and breathtaking abstract art pays homage to her Afro-Trinidadian ...