Black people, Morton says, have shied away from art because it was dominated by the white elite and wasn't considered a field where black families could make a living.

But as Laguna Art Museum’s new exhibit, “Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation” demonstrates, black and white can contain multiplicities.

Washington Art Matters: Art Life in the Capital 1940–1990 By Jean Lawlor Cohen, Elizabeth Tebow, and Sidney Lawrence. The Washington Arts Museum—a now-defunct group devoted to local artists—put ...

They have specifically selected work by emerging and mid-career artists. They have prioritized their spending, focusing on travel and art. The $18,000 sculpture, for instance, was bought over the ...

Art royalty like Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence and Charles White are featured alongside contemporary art stars like Mickalene Thomas and Kara Walker and anonymous artists and self-taught seers ...