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A’Lelia Bundles is finally telling the story of her namesake in her new book “Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem ...
Much has happened in Harlem since it first jumped to international literary acclaim in the 1920s. Yet as the stewards of the ...
Against this background, portraiture—the quintessential ... At its best, what “Harlem Renaissance” provides is a chance to witness that becoming, to peek at those negotiations in progress ...
The book, out Tuesday, is a fictionalization of the lives of many of the Harlem Renaissance’s key figures, including Hughes, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the woman credited as the whole ...
An ambitious new exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism ... “We saw an unusual passage in the background, so we did some infrared imaging and X-radiography ...
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.
The Met includes some half dozen works by Reiss in “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a landmark exhibition largely devoted to portraiture. Reiss’s “Two Public School ...
A new exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections sheds light on an often-overlooked Harlem Renaissance poet in UVA’s backyard. The exhibition, titled “Anne ...
In third place, for Inclusion & Representation in Features: Ken Makin’s “Walking in the path of the Harlem Renaissance”; Ira Porter’s “Comeback college: How Morris Brown kept its doors ...