Yiadom-Boakye’s large-scale oil paintings riff on historical portraiture conventions while defying easy categorization. Wrist Action (2010), for instance, depicts a smiling black man framed ...

Derek Fordjour, “Airborne Double,” 2022, Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil pastel, and foil on newspaper mounted on canvas. (Photo: Daniel Greer/Derek Fordjour/Frances Fine Art Collection ...

A triptych oil painting by the Chinese artist Zhang Xioagang has sold for more than $10 million (£6.2 million) in Hong Kong.

Nvidia and Adobe teamed up to develop a 3D-painting app that is sure to become an essential tool for modern day art forgers. The software accurately simulates the 3D texture of oil paints, and how ...

The gallery has spent the past 18 months restoring the painting, which was made with layers of oil, pigment, resin, egg and glue. The black ink had soaked through the layers to the work’s canvas ...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, “Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket” (1875), oil on panel. Whistler sued Ruskin for libel. In Murphy’s telling, the dark and heat of the courtroom ...

Since 2012, Wiley has added black women to his repertoire, dressing them in flowing, custom-made couture gowns. Looking at how women had been portrayed in the history of art and then responding ...

Paintings by famous, contemporary Black artists acquired by Spencer Museum. Fahamu Pecou, “Parable of the Sower: Oya’s Dream,” 2023, courtesy of the artist. (University of Kansas) ...

Clark’s oval canvas “Yenom (#9)” (1970), painted in poured acrylic with a push broom, was at Tate Modern in 2017, in the group show Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.