The first Latina curator in the Whitney Biennial's 82-year history, Marcela Guerrero, is expanding the map of “American” art through kinship, technology, and global resistance.

Francesca Alexander, "Charity" (1861), oil on canvas (© 1985 Sotheby's Inc; photo courtesy Sotheby's Inc.) English art critic John Ruskin once wrote that she possessed “a quite heavenly gift of genius in a kind I had never before seen”; American ...

A new Smithsonian American Art Museum show surveys the work of Black, Asian American, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ and Latinx artists who have lived in the region Angelica Hankins | Freelance Writer Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke/Crow), Four Seasons series: Summer ...

It is no secret that Black visual artists and painters in history have often been leaders of artistic innovation, and the 15 named below are but a few examples from a much longer list. These artists’ work tells compelling narratives, offers reflections ...

In the shadow of the American Revolutionary War and at the dawn of the new republic of the United States of America, against all odds a man by the name of Joshua Johnson became the earliest documented Black professional artist in the country’s history.

A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II incarceration David A. Taylor Floating Clouds, Hisako Hibi, oil on canvas, 1944 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase ...