FAMU professor has just debuted the gallery’s first exhibition called “New Beginnings” in his newly imagined Stan Johnson ...

A self-portrait by South African artist Alexis Preller and a piece from postcolonial Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi described by Sotheby’s as “career-defining,” will lead a sale of modern and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American painter Kehinde Wiley stands in front of a portrait of Alpha Condé, former president of Guinea, during the opening of his ...

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RABAT, Morocco (AP) — American artist Kehinde Wiley unveiled a series of large-format portraits of African leaders in Morocco on Tuesday, building on his now famous 2018 portrait of former U.S.