Thousands of people poked their heads into the hundreds of stands arrayed around Capitol Square on Saturday, the first of two ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Old Dominion University's Barry Art Museum's "Out of the Box: a Barbie Doll Retrospective" exhibit examines the design history of the world’s most iconic doll.

Screening of “Black Barbie: A documentary” at Modern Art Museum was prompted in part by book bans, suppression of Black history in schools.

Early in her documentary "Black Barbie," Lagueria Davis admits that she hates dolls. But that didn't stop the 2007 University of Oklahoma graduate from spending more than a dozen years telling the ...

Like last year's "Barbie," a new documentary raises questions about whether seeing yourself reflected in commercialized art serves you or a corporation.

See how Barbie has reflected fashion and career trends when the Phoenix Art Museum presents "Barbie: A Cultural Icon." Here's what will be on display.

'Barbie' is the talk of cinema, but a Spartanburg, SC, woman was Barbie's fashion designer long before the movie came to be. Meet Kitty Black Perkins.

Complex Canada caught up with Toronto/Brooklyn artist Black Power Barbie to talk about the animations she did for Apple Music's Hip-Hop 50 packaging.

“Yes, She Does Come In Black!” This May, the museum will pull out all the high fashion stops (with over 300 Barbie’s…) to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original Black Barbie doll.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Mattel’s very first black Barbie ®, which debuted in 1980 and was designed by fashion pioneer Kitty Black Perkins, a native of Spartanburg, South ...

Her success with Barbie, she said, came from making her own clothes as a child; developing an artistic eye in the art department at the all-black Carver High School in Spartanburg; her love of all ...