was not only the first Black artist to be represented by a major New York gallery, but he was also the first to have his work — the “Migration Series,” a collection of 60 paintings depicting ...

By Richard Rudnicki, this piece commemorates the Halifax arrival of black refugees from the Chesapeake area of Maryland and Virginia in 1814. The painting is thought to be the only image ever created ...

It is hard to pull away from Korean artist Lee Jinju’s “Black Paintings”. Faces, body parts and other objects, painted realistically with the finest of brushstrokes, loom out from what ...