Brilliantly colored and full of visual drama, Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life sized quilted portraits are nearly indistinguishable from paintings. Creating works that have appeared on the cover of Time ...

When young men and women stepped into studio backdrops to have their photograph taken in Bamako, Kinshasa and Accra in the 1950s and 60s, they were doing more than dressing up for the camera. With ...

At left, a photograph by Thomas E. Askew of women sitting on the steps of Atlanta University, from an album prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois (c.1899, via Library of Congress); at right, Amy Sherald’s ...

Mr. Wiley, famous for his portrait of former President Obama, is now showing paintings of 11 current and former African heads of state. “This is not a celebration of individual leadership,” he said.