Black artists

Art Institute of Chicago explores ‘complex terrain’ of Pan-African art

A new show examines what the term means and celebrates foundational Black liberation movements

Miami Advice: Natalia Zuluaga on a little-known work that pays tribute to the city’s Black history

Continuing last year’s popular series, throughout Art Basel Miami Beach we are speaking to members of the local art scene about their favourite cultural destinations around Miami

Diversityfeature

Meet the grassroots group making the art world more welcoming for Black women

Black Girls in Art Spaces has expanded to more than two dozen chapters across the US and abroad in just two years

Connecticut arts incubator Nxthvn marks its fifth anniversary by looking to the future

The residency, gallery and community hub is revitalising New Haven with an eye towards art-world equity

Skillful new volume explores the contradictory Neo-Classicist, Guillaume Lethière

Seven essays accompany the first-ever exhibition devoted to the Caribbean-born artist who became a leading figure in the French art world

Elizabeth Catlett—the artist who was seen as a threat to the US—gets her due with touring show

The survey of the American Mexican sculptor and printmaker will show how activism and art went hand in hand

Remembering Faith Ringgold, one of the great story-tellers of American art

New York artist was acclaimed for the power of her paintings and quilts telling the civil rights story

‘Largest Black public art project in the US’ to launch in Los Angeles this spring

Conceived as an outdoor museum, with murals and sculptures by artists both world-renowned and locally beloved, Destination Crenshaw aims to preserve a close-knit community

Ekow Eshun on the power of Black figuration and his new London show

Plus, 100 years of the Surrealist manifesto and Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance

More than a moment: major survey of Black figuration opens at National Portrait Gallery London

Curator Ekow Eshun has brought together portraits from 22 leading artists, including Kerry James Marshall and Claudette Johnson

Efforts to restore dilapidated house museum of African American art in Savannah, Georgia get significant boost

The Kiah house will be restored to its former glory, highlighting African American art, and providing housing to local artists

Booksreview

From Morocco to Malaysia: new publication traces the US artist Betye Saar’s journeys of discovery

Richly produced book documents how the nonagenarian artist’s work has been informed by her decades of travel

Simone Leigh reprises Venice Biennale success for US touring show

The homecoming tour for the artist’s presentation in Venice last year begins at the ICA Boston

The story of Juan de Pareja: from Diego Velázquez’s slave to distinguished artist

Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career

Prizesnews

Photographer and historian Deborah Willis receives $200,000 prize from Crystal Bridges Museum

Willis is a photographer, author and curator whose work illuminates cultural histories of Blackness

Black American women artists represent just 0.1% of auction sales, report shows

New data shows there has been little real progress in fighting sexism and racism between 2008 and 2022

The Big Review: Just Above Midtown at the Museum of Modern Art ★★★★★

New York's Just Above Midtown gallery launched the careers of numerous artists of colour, and this five-star exhibition about it is a celebration of the power of art