The artistic trajectory of painter Kerry James Marshall was determined by civil rights movements. Born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, he observed an upheaval before his family relocated to Watts in ...

With early chatter that the Royal Academy's "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories” exhibition is a major hit, it’s notable that a couple of Marshall works have made it to the show floor of Frieze ...

Kerry James Marshall began by disappearing. In 1980, he painted "A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self," a black background surrounding the face of a black man so that the white of ...

American artist Kerry James Marshall has produced his first-ever formal portrait, choosing to depict the renowned African American scholar and historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., often known as Skip.

LONDON — The day before his survey exhibition “The Histories” opened to the public — his largest presentation of work in Europe, with more than 70 works made over 4 1/2 decades — Kerry James Marshall ...

With his large-scale, exuberant paintings, artist Kerry James Marshall is on a mission: to make the presence of black people and black culture in the art world "indispensable" and "undeniable." Now 61 ...

A source familiar with direct knowledge told ARTnews that the consignor is none other than French actor Francis Lombrail, who ...

Late in September, the Washington National Cathedral held a dedication ceremony for a quartet of new stained glass windows designed by painter Kerry James Marshall and fabricated by Andrew Goldkuhle, ...

Kerry James Marshall has spent his career depicting black lives on canvas. He says inclusion in the art world shouldn't be contingent on "whether somebody likes you ... or somebody's being generous to ...

We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted. By Larry Buchanan Kerry James Marshall, Picasso, Cai and macabre relics of Marie Antoinette rank among the leading draws for ...

How can an art fair lure customers and make sales in a down market? Pitching its tent next to billionaires is a start. By Ray Mark Rinaldi A new art book collects the painter’s printmaking oeuvre over ...