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 ...
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!
Zinnia Maldonado joins the CBS News New York team from CBS Boston. While there, she had the opportunity to cover an array of national and breaking news stories such as the Boston Marathon, the Harmony ...
A young couple poses on West 127th Street in Harlem with their shiny new Cadillac. She wears a cloche hat and a slight smile, he offers a cool stare from underneath the capacious brim of a fedora.
A new exhibit featuring art from the Harlem Renaissance is coming to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2024. “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” will include the works of more than ...
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows artists from the Harlem Renaissance taking ownership of Black history. Race and Identity Reporter The New Negro Movement was a celebration of ...
Pop culture critic Miles Marshall Lewis explores the throughline from the Harlem Renaissance to hip-hop in The Met’s new exhibition. A stone’s throw from Harlem, on the stately campus of Columbia ...
In the early and mid-20th century, New York's Harlem neighborhood served as a creative sanctuary for African-American painters, sculptors, musicians and authors, providing inspiration for artists ...
The first time the Metropolitan Museum of Art staged an exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance, it was a disaster. “Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900 – 1968”, which opened at ...
Illuminating. Informative. Surprising. Perplexing. All of these apply to the large, ambitious survey “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.