Sometimes it’s the sleepers that stay with you. In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still life by ...
It was an art movement that helped create a new portrait and understanding of Black life in America. Now, The Harlem Renaissance is the subject of an exhibition at one of the country’s leading museums ...
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 ...
“Looking for Langston,” the 1989 film and art installation by Isaac Julien, reevaluated gay and lesbian contributions to the Harlem Renaissance. Isaac Julien Harlem Central Park MANHATTAN Downtown ...
A century ago, a dinner party in New York set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century. It was an interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In the 1970s, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Disinvestment had taken its toll. Violence, crime and poor living ...
NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s. PIEN HUANG, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a mass exodus known as urban flight ...
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