The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and artistic movement that thrived during the 1920s, was a remarkable period in American history. It was a time when African-American art, literature ...

You said that the artists and the thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance kind of formalized ... new modes of expression emanating from African American culture that we should embrace, rather than ...

separate from the rest of European and American modernism. An ambitious new exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” opening Feb. 25 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism ... It wants us to understand that Black American artists were learning from European modernists, and that European modernists were ...

The Met includes some half dozen works by Reiss in “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic ... about the idealized origins of African American art and simultaneous presence and absence of ...

We want the art world to come and see this and to think about why the Harlem Renaissance is never heard of outside of the course on African American art when it should be part of the central ...

when African-American art, literature and music flourished. Today, we refer to that era as the Harlem Renaissance. At the time, author Alain Locke dubbed it as The New Negro Movement. Art ...

In 1934, she became the first African American to join ... would teach and mentor emerging artists, including Jacob Lawrence.