The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” When we think about the Harlem ...
Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!
The museum catches up to the vital lessons of the Harlem Renaissance, with its American, European and African exchanges and its cultural solidarity. William Henry Johnson, “Street Life, Harlem,” circa ...
One hundred years ago, in the early decades of the 20th century, a blisteringly brilliant artistic hub coalesced in Harlem, a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, made up of Black writers, poets, painters ...
"The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism" showcases a dazzling array of invention by figures familiar and obscure. Aaron Douglas, Aspiration (1936) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's ...
It's Been a Minute host Brittany Luse and producer Liam McBain took a little field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York — and... 'The Harlem Renaissance' and what is Black art for? It's ...
When we think about the Harlem Renaissance, we usually think about it as a literary movement, writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. But the Black cultural revival that spanned from the ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and... 'The Harlem Renaissance' and what is Black art for? SCOTT ...