Her efforts included doing extensive genealogical research and trying varied outreach methods, even cold calling the quiltmakers' relatives.

The artist creates a dynamic conversation between the museum’s historic art and architecture and the fluidity of contemporary ...

WWII-era, they could make the difference between sleeping or freezing for the Black families who moved out of the South ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding ...

I wanted to learn more about this remarkable parish, and how it formed a thread that was connected to the rich legacy of my ...

Standing on opposite sides of a roughly 9-by-12-foot table in a work room at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific ... included in “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in ...

On May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers luminaries from the spheres of art, business, politics, sports, and entertainment ...

Where there is momentum just now is for Africa’s 20th-century artists ... Touria El Glaoui, the founder of the specialist 1-54 art fair, says that despite cooler art market winds, galleries ...

which houses Europe’s largest collection of modern and contemporary art, “Paris Noir,” or “Black Paris,” features more than 300 works by 150 artists of African heritage. “It is a story ...

African-American art and artists have been an important piece of Detroit's cultural identity at least since the middle of the 20th Century, but often the work and the artists who make it have ...

opening during Art Basel. This year there will be several major shows dedicated to 20th- and 21st- century African artists. South African Social Realism pioneer Gerard Sekoto headlines the ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...