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 Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...

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 ...

The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. In January 1969, the Metropolitan Museum ...

When Passing debuts on Netflix on Nov. 10, the film—starring Oscar nominee Ruth Negga (Loving) and Tessa Thompson—will draw new attention to Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel on which it is based. The story ...

"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 ...

Harlem was synonymous with the arts. But what I didn’t know was how that had come to be. By Veronica Chambers This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up for Race/Related here. As a kid growing ...

A guest stop to read parts of the “FIRE!” magazine at entrance of the Silhouette exhibition inside The Wolfsonian - FIU on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. Carl Juste ...