Update : In June 2015 Emanuel AME, the church discussed in this post, was attacked by a white supremacist who killed nine people in an act o...

James van der Zee set up his famous photograhy studio in his sister's music conservatory in Harlem in 1911. Just as the Harlem Renaissa...

Happy Black History Month! Here is a portrait I drew from my Interesting South Carolinians series of Septima Poinsette Clark: Ciana Pull...

Quentin Blake, illustration for Rhoald Dahl's The Witches. In the film the central figure-- the witch leader-- was played by Angelica...

Film still from Flooded McDonald's , by SUPERFLEX. [Image description: color photo taken near eye level of water, maybe waist-deep, o...

[This post has been edited for brevity] Look at these weird babies! What do they have in common? Bramantino, Madonna and Child , c. ...