Collection: Art

When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to...

From her Barbados childhood to her worldwide tours, from iconic fashion moments to private time with friends and family, the book showcases intimate photographs of...

Legendary artist Henry Taylor's first major monograph chronicles his life and work—the "visual equivalent of the blues."This definitive survey of over 200 of the painter's...

African American Artist in Los Angeles in the 1960's and 1970's  In South of Pico, Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during...

The authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde Wiley. The artists...

Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they appeared to marauding European traders.  Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs...

In The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, curator and critic Antwaun Sargent addresses a radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today. The...

A celebration of queer and trans Black and brown genius… Building on the groundbreaking first volume, Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some...

  Maya Angelou's unforgettable poem is matched with the daring art of Jean-Michel Basquiat in this powerful ode to courage Shadows on the wallNoises down...

Black art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers In the period of radical change that was 1963–83, young black artists at the...

Dapper Dan's Harlem by Ari Marcopoulos is a leather bound, gold text embossed bible of Harlem, where Dapper Dan introduced high fashion to hip hop....

Kara Walker’s (b. 1969) Figa, a sculpture monumental in both size and symbol, was installed at the DESTE Foundation’s Hydra Slaughterhouse in 2017. Once a part...

Illustrator Jacqui C. Smith graduated from Columbia College of Chicago with a BA in Film & Video: Traditional Animation. Jacqui currently resides in Burbank, California...

The fight for equality continues, from 1960 to now. Combining portraits of past and present social justice activists with documentary images from recent protests throughout the...