Although representations of black people were overlooked for a long time, current social and political movements participate to reanimate the interest around some of these artworks.
Op-Ed: It's imperative that we challenge negative narratives and celebrate the true story of Haitian American contributions.
The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art is the beneficiary of a significant gift of paintings, sculptures, and decorative art objects from the estate of Ernestine Morris Carmichael Raclin (1927-2024).
In Ville d'Avray, Corot's palette is restrained, dominated with browns and blacks ("forbidden colors" among the Impressionists). Like similar Barbizon scenes, this painting has a moody quality, ...
Jean Baptiste Greuze was a French painter best known for his portraits, genre scenes, and history paintings. Greuze’s work was known for having sentimental and sometimes titillating subject matter, as ...
Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, born in Haiti in 1745, moved to the U.S. when he became a fur trader. He built a cabin on the ...
Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is one of the best-known early evolutionists. Unlike Darwin, Lamarck believed that living things evolved in a continuously upward direction, from dead matter ...
A s a Haitian American, Hillary Jean-Baptiste of San Antonio knows it’s odd to say this, but she’s almost glad the Republican ...
The painting is one of 16 reproductions of artwork by Haitian artists that will be displayed outside the Little Haiti Cultural Center beginning Friday in an outdoor exhibit titled Haiti in the ...
For several weeks, Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have spread untrue rumors about Haitian immigrants in the city eating their neighbors’ cats and ...
At a National Gallery of Art reception in September, museum director Kaywin Feldman thanked the donors of 15 modern and contemporary works by Haitian artists ... the regime of Jean-Claude ...
Jean-Claude Duvalier, who died of a heart attack on October 4, 2014, became the unwilling dictator of Haiti (and the world’s youngest president) in 1971, when he was only 19. He seemed to be a ...