So, the reason why African American art, Black art, is so powerful and ... given him permission to give them this new life in the 20th century because they were forgotten in the past.

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...

Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton’s jazz album “A Day in Copenhagen”—piped into the galleries—is the principal soundtrack for “Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century,” at ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

The African art on display here includes a variety of 19th- and 20th-century spiritual and ceremonial objects, created from metal, wood, ceramics and more. According to the museum, its mission is ...

Recognized at the federal level since 1976, Black History Month was championed in the early 20th century by Black ... the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH ...