Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a ...

Charles White was an American artist known for murals and prints which often portrayed African ... at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across ...

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million and currently on offer at an art fair. But what's the story behind the painting?

Gustav Klimt’s portrait of an African prince, painted when his people were displayed in a “human zoo,” was first dismissed because it didn’t “look like a Klimt.” ...