African American Art
Stories about African American and Black art and artists in America
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Getty Invests $1.55M to Preserve Black-Designed Modern Architecture
Partnership with African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund supports the identification and preservation of Black modernist sites
Finding Féral Benga
Inside an art historian’s search for the Senegalese muse of early 20th-century Paris
Eight Endangered Buildings Designed by Black Architects Awarded Getty Funding
In partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the grants will support conservation planning, training, and storytelling for modern sites
Protecting a Legacy of African American Art
After immersing himself in the New York City art scene, LeRonn Brooks is now building an African American art history archive at Getty
Reviving Zion
The Conserving Black Modernism grant program is helping to revitalize a Baptist church with deep ties to the civil rights movement
Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae
Do you know this seven-time Grammy nominee?
Capturing the Artist’s Perspective
How Getty’s African American Art History Initiative is making history
Five Conservation Projects That Safeguarded Art in 2023
From a tiny horse to a 13-foot bronze
Inside Senga Nengudi’s Dance with Pantyhose
How the artist’s R.S.V.P. project conveys the human experience
A Dive into Charles McAfee’s Beloved Modernist Swimming Pool
How Getty and a Kansas neighborhood rallied to save a community pool designed to welcome Black swimmers