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Frank Bowling’s Geographies

The restless innovation of the influential painter is on display in a retrospective in California.

The Ecstatic, Elusive Art of Ming Smith

The artist was the first Black woman photographer to have her work acquired by MoMA. Now, decades later, as she returns for a solo show,...

Xaviera Simmons Is Embarrassed for America

For the interdisciplinary artist, watching the cycle of responses to white supremacist violence — outrage turning into apathy — is an anguish as familiar as...

Michael R. Jackson and Jacolby Satterwhite on Making Art in a Shifting Culture

Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the playwright behind “A Strange Loop” and the visual artist.

Why Faith Ringgold Makes Sure Her Pieces Bear Her Signature

At 91, the artist is reflecting on her oeuvre.

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Mesmeric Alternate Universes

With her richly detailed narrative drawings, the artist creates vivid fictional worlds that ask questions about our own, and about the nature of storytelling itself.