Join Dr. Denise M. Murrell, Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large in The Met’s Director's Office, for a virtual tour of the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.
Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, it will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South. The first art museum survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the exhibition will establish the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern Black subject as central to the development of international modern art.
On view February 25 to July 28, 2024.
Exhibition Tour—The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Denise Murrell
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Contributors
Denise Murrell
Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large, Modern and Contemporary Art
Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large, Modern and Contemporary Art
The exhibition is made possible by the Ford Foundation, the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation, and Denise Littlefield Sobel.
Corporate sponsorship is provided by Bank of America.
Additional support is provided by the Enterprise Holdings Endowment, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, the Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed Fund, and The International Council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The catalogue is made possible by the Mellon Foundation.
Additional support is provided by Denise Littlefield Sobel and Robert E. Holmes.
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