"Black Venus," on view at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco through August, is a visual critique of centuries-old stereotypes of Black women, with the intent to reframe, re-sort and ...

BLACK VENUS, curated by Aindrea Emelife is an exhibition that surveys the legacy of Black Women in visual culture - from fetishized, colonial-era caricatures to the present-day reclamation of the rich ...

The representation of the black female body in art is a “complicated” topic, to say the least, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. It is “a fiery stew of big issues” – of sexual, racial and ...

European art history is full of naked women. The French film director Alice Diop, who grew up as the daughter of a Senegalese family in a Paris suburb, adds to this: Many of these women are black.