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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” When we think about the Harlem ...
The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that we’ve never published, showing the people and the art that they created. By The New York Times By The New ...
In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still life by Aaron Douglas. Born in Topeka, Kansas ...
Selma Burke was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement. The 20th-century sculptor and one-time New Hope resident's most embraceable work is one you probably never knew you've touched. "One of ...
The Harlem Renaissance artist William H. Johnson’s prescient, social justice-forward final series of paintings is a testament to courage. Fighters for Freedom, organised as a touring exhibition ...
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 and Louis Armstrong ...
It's been a century since the artistic experimentation of the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to jazz, the music art form, in the roaring 1920s and 1930s. Without a doubt it was "one of the queerest ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing those visual arts in the exhibition "The Harlem Renaissance And Transatlantic Modernism." NPR's own Brittany Luse, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute ...