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She represented the US at the Venice Biennale last year. Now her first-ever career survey opens in Boston.

This year’s Venice Biennale sees Black women of Caribbean descent representing Scotland, Britain and the United States – this is why this rendition of the Biennale is so important.

Emmanuel Balogun looks images of Africa and the African diaspora at the Venice Biennale 2022, from Tourmaline to Simone Leigh.

Raymond Burnier’s photos, which were displayed at New York’s MoMA in 1949, helped turn places like Khajuraho into major international destinations.

Simone Leigh was on the phone from Venice, Italy. It’s not all here yet, she said.She had been installing her exhibition of bronzes and ceramics in the U.S. Pavilion at the...

The pavilion will form the backbone of the artist's first museum survey, which is traveling from Boston to Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles.

The acclaimed sculptor holds court at the U.S. Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, where she explores the burden of colonial histories and the promise of Black feminism. She begins by thatching the roof.

My first memory of a zoo was in the late 1950, as a child of seven. This was the tiny Staten Island zoo, all of eight acres, and it had alligators, otters, bats and monkeys, along with a nationally recognized collection of rattlesnakes. I was adequately scared by the rattlesnakes and the alligators but the one creature which moved me the most, was a full grown tiger pacing back and forth in its remarkably small cage. That huge animal trapped in its little cell was one of the key moments in my p...