Fisk University is on the brink. The endowment of the tiny, historic school in Nashville, which opened its doors to newly freed slaves in 1865, is depleted. Every building on the campus where poet ...

Fisk Galleries Director and Curator Jamaal Sheats and Art Conservator Ian McClure talked about teaching the students how to conserve historical paintings from Fisk’s art collection. Fisk University is ...

A museum has dropped a lawsuit that sought to strip Fisk University of a 101-piece art collection after a lengthy litigation stemming from Fisk’s plan to sell two paintings to raise money, The ...

Fisk University’s Board of Trustees has agreed to share the institution’s valuable Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art with a new museum in Arkansas founded by an heir to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fisk University said Friday it has completed an agreement with an Arkansas museum to share ownership of the Stieglitz Art Collection. The courts have allowed the school to sell ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Fisk University may soon be able to generate cash off its 101-piece art collection donated by the late painter Georgia O'Keeffe. On Monday, the Tennessee Supreme Court ...

Fisk University senior Alexander Ngwuogbe and other students gather after the university-wide meeting on the school's financial status at Fisk University in Nashville. Fisk University, a historically ...

The New York Times looks at sales of donated art by Nashville’s Fisk University in light of the larger debate in the museum world over such “deaccessioning” by financially struggling institutions.

Alicia Henry is relaxed inside the Carl Van Vechten Gallery. She is relaxed in most places, but especially here — the gallery, named after the photographer and Harlem Renaissance patron, is the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A national group of art museum directors has offered to help Fisk University figure out how to avoid breaking up or selling its art collection. Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle of ...

In December 1961, the exhibition Art From Africa of Our Time opened at the Harmon Foundation in New York. Earlier that same year, the Freedom Riders began protesting segregation across the American ...