By the time artist Mavis Pusey died in 2019 at 90, she was living at the home of her caregiver in rural Virginia. Her bold, ...

Much of the work of a critic today involves re-contextualizing artists and rethinking art movements of the past, knowing that art history, like all histories, is fallible, privileging some stories and ...

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression.

All three artists are currently in their 70s. They are abstract conceptual contemporary artists who happen to be black. “The work is not an African American abstraction,” Sanford said.

A central theme of the exhibition is the power of abstract art as a political choice as well as a personal statement for generations of black artists. The freedoms of postwar abstraction took on ...

Abstract expressionist movements generally follow figurative movements, he said, noting the importance of the Black figure in art during the Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights and Black Arts movements.

Abstract art feels more like music in the sense that one will look and feel rather than immediately recognize faces and places and then assign meaning. In an academic study published in 2020 in ...

Spotlighting artists like Sam Gilliam, Felrath Hines and Joe Overstreet, “Innervisions” underscores the breadth of Black abstract art since the 1950s.

Kristen Woollery, a Black woman, is one such artist. Woollery’s unique and breathtaking abstract art pays homage to her Afro-Trinidadian roots and is heavily influenced by her upbringing in ...

Days after retiring from the stage at Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza, Ozzy Osbourne is auctioning artwork he painted with the help of chimpanzees. The Prince Of Darkness is ...