Collection: Art

Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and...

This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his...

Updated documentation of The Theater of Refusal on the exhibition's 30th anniversary. In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted a...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At...

Amy Sherald's work, life, and significance for American art, as revealed in her powerful figurative paintings of Black subjects Bringing together nearly all of her...

The first publication to examine the symbolic importance of ancient Egypt to Black artists and other cultural figures, from the nineteenth century through the Harlem...

An expansive volume featuring over two decades of incisive reflections on race, art and pop culture by one of the greatest artists working today. This...

A facsimile of the Just Above Midtown 1978 exhibition catalog that disrupted the white-dominated canon of postwar abstract art. Originally published in 1978 alongside an...

A beautifully illustrated book-length publication on the contemporary artist and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley, whose quietly devastating work blurs the space between fact and...

Parks' impactful images from the forefront of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements Originally published in 1971, Gordon Parks' Born Black was the first book to...

The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The...

In The Propagation Handbook, plant stylist Hilton Carter reveals how to grow and increase your own plant family by propagating existing plants. Not only a plant...

Tiona Nekkia McClodden considers the presence and absence of the Black figure and aesthetic tropes of representation through work traversing film, installation, sculpture, painting, and...

African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work. Before...

A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation...

A sweeping retrospective of Alma W. Thomas's wide-reaching artistic practice that sheds new light on her singular search for beauty. Achieving fame in 1972 as...

Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990 examines how political violence and resistance was represented in arthouse...

  Dawoud Bey focuses on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. Renowned for his Harlem...

An engaging introduction to contemporary Black American collage brings together art by fifty artists that reflects the breadth and complexity of Black identity Building on...

A rich reappraisal of a key Black American modernist through a lens of cross-cultural engagement Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967) was the first Black modernist on...