The Root

In Painting, African Women’s Burden Carries a Deeper Meaning

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...
Artnet

Emerging African Artists Have Amassed Nearly $65 Million at Auction Since 2019. Some of Them Don’t Even Have Galleries Yet

The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. As the art market roared back in 2021, one segment has ...
CNN

Presidential portraits: Inside Kehinde Wiley’s secret, decade-long project painting African leaders

Art history is filled with examples of the powerful and the wealthy communicating their status through portraiture. Not just sovereigns, but military leaders, aristocrats, and champions of industry.
The New York Times

Long-Lost Klimt Portrays African Prince

The gallery selling the work, which resurfaced at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair, says a major museum is negotiating to buy it. Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona.Credit...W&K ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Dusty Painting Turned Out to Be Gustav Klimt’s Long-Lost Portrait of an African Prince

Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a photograph of the work, claiming that it had been painted by Gustav Klimt, ...
Penn Live

Historic painting of Yellowstone by African-American Pennsylvania artist acquired by Penn State museum

A rare painting of an iconic landscape in Yellowstone National Park by an African American artist born in Harrisburg has been added to the collection at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State. The ...