African American Art
Stories about African American and Black art and artists in America
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Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae
Do you know this seven-time Grammy nominee?
Capturing the Artist’s Perspective
How Getty’s African American Art History Initiative is making history
Five Conservation Projects That Safeguarded Art in 2023
From a tiny horse to a 13-foot bronze
Inside Senga Nengudi’s Dance with Pantyhose
How the artist’s R.S.V.P. project conveys the human experience
A Dive into Charles McAfee’s Beloved Modernist Swimming Pool
How Getty and a Kansas neighborhood rallied to save a community pool designed to welcome Black swimmers
New Monograph Showcases María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s Innovative Oeuvre
This book is the first critical look at the artist’s practice in nearly 20 years
New Podcast Art and Poetry Released by Getty
Each episode features a conversation on the influence of African American culture on visual art and poetry
Eight Black Modernist Buildings Receive Getty Support
Grants are part of a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation
The Ambitious Plan to Open Up a Treasure Trove of Black History
Check in on the progress of the seven-year project to digitize the Johnson Publishing Company archive
Getty Community Engagement Project Culminates with LA: In Dialogue
Project expands Getty exhibition to a wider Los Angeles community