She can see joy and sweat and that liberated feeling of getting out of one's head and onto the dancefloor. Wandergirl (a.k.a. Hilton Head native Amber Glover) can also see the cliques that form in the ...

European art history is full of naked women. The French film director Alice Diop, who grew up as the daughter of a Senegalese family in a Paris suburb, adds to this: Many of these women are black.

'Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices' critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the ...

The representation of the black female body in art is a “complicated” topic, to say the least, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. It is “a fiery stew of big issues” – of sexual, racial and ...