In some ways, the Harlem Renaissance started the debates that we're still having about Black art today, raising questions like, what is art for, and how do we want to represent ourselves?

As a curator trying to reconstruct the history to the extent that I have white European ... Motley, Black Belt, Harlem Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art Harlem Renaissance history is epic ...

When the time came for my own interview, I recalled being directly inspired by both the Black Arts Movement ... Museum of Art’s latest exhibit, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic ...

The first two episodes drop on Feb. 20, followed by subsequent installments focused on “Art ... Harlem Renaissance era “are happening as images of death [of Black people] are circulating ...

The 1925 painting, “Two Public School Teachers,” is by Winold Reiss, a White ... The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through July ...

The art works, too ... body with classical homoeroticism set the stage for the Harlem Renaissance, when Black artists and a few white fellow-travellers mobilized it for their own ends.

In “The Harlem Renaissance ... Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still life by Aaron Douglas. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1899, Douglas may be the most recognizable Black artist of the 1920s ...

where do black people fit in. And it's not monolithic." The people and places associated with the Harlem Renaissance are a roll call for American letters, art and thought: musicians Billie Holiday ...

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 ...

“Looking for Langston,” the 1989 film and art ... of the Renaissance,” she said. The map and descriptions of figures and venues below aim to capture that reality. A black-and-white photograp ...

Pop culture critic Miles Marshall Lewis explores the throughline from the Harlem Renaissance to hip ... as best they could — with Black folks, leading to white flight. By the 1920s, Harlem ...