In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Throughout his five-decade career as an artist, ...

Jacob Lawrence, “The Migration Series” (1940-41), panel 52: “One of the largest race riots occurred in East St. Louis” (1941), casein tempera on hardboard, 18 x 12 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, ...

Quincy's Gadsden Arts has landed an American artistic master for a traveling exhibit opening in February. Jacob Lawrence is a widely celebrated artist from the 20th century who has captivated viewers ...

FOR nearly two decades, critics have called Jacob Lawrence, 43, “the top U.S. Negro painter”—a race-conscious title that tends to blur his individual style. While the dominant school of abstract art ...

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter The museum catches up to the vital ...

Washington’s most distinguished stage production about the city’s favorite modernist painting cycle was born at a synchronized swimming competition in 2010. That’s when C. Brian Williams, the founder ...

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), who painted the African-American experience, is among the most well-known and respected black American figurative artists of the 20th century. But a new exhibition, “Black ...