“It would not be a stretch to suggest,” he wrote at the time, with withering understatement, “that low ‘African-American’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — 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 ...

On November 7, 2016, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl concluded his review of Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at The Met Breuer (October 25, 2016 – January 29, 2017) on an optimistic note: There ...

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.

Kerry James Marshall is one of the most decorated contemporary African-American artists working today. His flat—almost two-dimensional—eerily utopian paintings have earned him entry into the Whitney ...

Kidnappings, enslavement, cops and squad cars, golfers, picnics, croquet-players, interstellar travellers … the US artist’s largest ever European show takes in an extraordinary range of experience in ...

Kerry James Marshall, Untitled, 2009 is part of The Histories at the Royal Academy of Arts until 18 January 2026 In the midst of Frieze week madness, with the art fairs and every gallery mounting ...

Stained glass designed by Kerry James Marshall for the Washington National Cathedral replaced windows honoring Confederate generals. (Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times) "I've spent my entire ...