Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra) by Kerry James Marshall is on view as part of “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From torn pieces of paper, Nia Winslow constructs vibrant scenes that evoke togetherness and nostalgia in paper collages.

Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra) by Kerry James Marshall is on view as part of “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” at the Art Institute of Chicago.

And so, here is an artist depicting himself as a youthful ... We have someone like Kerry James Marshall, who is a titan when it comes to contemporary art in Chicago, so he’s prominently featured ...

We have someone like Kerry James Marshall, who is a titan when it comes ... We have a large-scale installation by Ebony G. Patterson, an artist who lives between Chicago and Kingston, Jamaica.

Rea Irvin, a savvy man-about-town, designed the first cover, planned for February, 1925. He rejected the initial concept of a ...

Works by Black artists on how labor influenced Black history and culture, curated by Faith Evans; reception 3-5 p.m. Feb. 16; ...

If you can find a way to always return to what makes your artists’ practice grow, you’ll continually find that the art system ...

Explore NCCU's permanent collection, watch documentaries at NCMA, go to a jazz concert, and more local ways to honor the ...

Last fall an artist duct-taped a banana to a wall ... Plenty of works that sell for huge sums—such as Kerry James Marshall’s Past Times, which brought $21 million—are worth every penny. But the really ...

In Painting for My Dad (2011), artist Noah Davis presents a male figure gazing over a rocky landscape beneath a star-strewn, ...

Presentations at Brockman Gallery helped raise the profile of artists such as David Hammons and Senga Nengudi.