This year’s slate of exhibitions centering Black artists, thinkers, and histories is both expansive and electric. From the genre-defying work of Kandis Williams to the celebratory legacy of ...

the painting is not an illustration of anything.” and “8. allow the paint as material to take care of the black thing.” These musings, though initially intended to inform only Whitten’s ...

From enslaved women concealing rice grains in their hair to Underground Railroad maps woven inside cornrows, Black hair has often been recognized in the multi-ethnic Black community as a symbol of ...