Art

Durham and Orange Counties have vibrant and active African American communities. Throughout the region's unjust past, generations have shown extraordinary strength and resolve. Floyd McKissick became the first African American student at the University...

A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.At the age of twenty-one, Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City, reeling...

Featuring art by some of the most important and well-collected Black artists whose work is a part of the vast and storied collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The National Museum of African American History and...

The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught relationship between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. The relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat is already one of the most...

The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with 1980s New York, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO, spraying caustic comments and fragmented poems on the walls of the city. He appeared as part of a...

A photographic celebration and exploration of Black identity and experience through the twentieth century from the founder and curator of the hit multimedia platform Black Archives. Renata Cherlise's family loved capturing their lives in photographs and...

The stories behind the iconic celebrities, brands, and images that defined hip-hop style. On a hot summer night in August of 1973 DJ Kool Herc and his sister, Cindy, put on a "back to school jam" in the recreation room of their apartment block at 1520...

- Documents the first major multimedia exhibition devoted to the role of music in Jean-Michel Basquiat's work- Accompanies an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from October 2022 - February 2023 and Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris,...

A monolithic collection of images captured by photographer Joey L. over the course of thirteen years with the support of his dedicated Ethiopian crew. "Joey L.'s Ethiopia book is a true love letter to my home country of Ethiopia, the land of milk and...

Dear black woman, You are beautiful, powerful, effervescent. Yet the weight of the world seeks to dim your glow, gnaw at your strengths, and dull your spark.Whenever you feel alone, remember that there have been many others in your shoes once. Now, look...

Sharee Miller is an acclaimed illustrator and author of many picture books, including Princess Hair, Don't Touch My Hair and Michelle's Garden. She is currently working on her debut graphic novel series Curlfriends. She is also the illustrator of the...

Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to Toni Morrison's revolutionary humanism to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's bracing essays investigate with virtuosic intensity the art, music, literature, and...

Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see--and see Blackness in particular--anew. In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our...

This book presents a selection of more than 150 superb Color & B&W images. Where previous jazz photographers captured their subjects in the dark, smoky environs of nightclubs, Claxton capitalized on the sun and surf of southern California, posing artists...