Still, after Beyoncé's official country debut, many contemporary Black country artists saw a boost in streaming numbers. A few of them, like Tanner Adell, Reyna Roberts and Rhiannon Giddens, were ...

Amy Sherald — the visionary behind Michelle Obama’s iconic portrait — is once again making history. Next fall, she will become the first contemporary Black artist to have a solo exhibition ...

There are countless examples of the ways that Black creativity in America has literally changed the world — from jazz, rock, and hip-hop, to soul food, to literature, to the power of a picture.

They are abstract conceptual contemporary artists who happen to be black. “The work is not an African American abstraction,” Sanford said.

The new temporary exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure,” features work by 28 contemporary Black artists depicting life and culture ...