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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 ...
John Thomas Biggers (April 13, 1924 – January 25, 2001) [1] was an African-American muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II. Biggers created works critical of racial and economic injustice.
Denise Murrell is a curator at large for 19th- and 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. [1] [2] She is best known for her 2018 exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, which explored how French Impressionist painters and later artists portrayed black models.
A press release in 1967 announced the ambition to present Harlem’s “achievements and contribution into American life and to the City.” [2] Thomas Hoving had planned a three-month long multimedia exhibition called Harlem on My Mind intended to highlight the history of Harlem since 1900. [3] The exhibition consisted of floor-to-ceiling ...
Benny Andrews and others [6] organized the BECC to protest the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s documentary exhibition, “Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–68,” [7] that did not include one painting or sculpture by a Harlem-based artist.
Lois Mailou Jones (1905–1998) [1] was an artist and educator.Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection.
McKinney resident Harvey Etter looks at a display in the ‘Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries’ exhibit on Friday, June 14, 2024, at the Kimbell Art Museum.
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1]