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At left, a smiling woman in a yellow jacket reaches out with both hands towards a wooden bookshelf at right to retrieve a book. The shelves hold books both horizontally and vertically.
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The Free Black Women’s Library | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025
“Part of what inspired the project was wanting to create something that really centered the brilliance and creativity of Black women writers and the transformative possibilities that come with reading.”
OlaRonke Akinmowo
April 25, 2024
Curator Denise Murrell stands in a purple shirt before a painting by Aaron Douglas featuring geometric abstracted figures rendered in a wide range of purples and greens.
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Exhibition Tour—The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
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.
Denise Murrell
March 7, 2024
collage of a harlem block with two buildings. A jazz band plays and children also play on the street.
The Sounds of The Block
How does the rediscovery of an audio component for Romare Bearden’s monumental collage transform our understanding of it?
Lauren Rosati
February 22, 2024
Harlem Is Everywhere podcast artwork featuring William Henry Johnsons's "Street Life, Harlem"
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Harlem Is Everywhere, A New Podcast from The Met
How music, fashion, literature, and art shaped a modern Black identity during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond
February 16, 2024
Artist Mei Lum gestures with her hands as she speaks at Wing on Wo store in front of porcelain ware home items.
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Meet Mei Lum, Artist-in-Residence
Meet Civic Practice Partnership artist-in-residence Mei Lum, founder of the W.O.W. Project and the fifth-generation owner of her family's century-old porcelain business, the oldest operating store in Chinatown.
Mei Lum
January 11, 2024
Three artists and one moderator sitting in modern grey chairs on a stage each holdings microphones with a red carpet underneath them. There is a projection screen behind them.
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Artists on Artworks—Africa & Byzantium
Join artists as they reflect on works in the exhibition Africa and Byzantium and make connections to their own artistic practices.
January 8, 2024
Five black men playing poker at a table with chips and cards. There is a window in the background.
Two Artists of the Great Depression
Learn more about the influential work of Dox Thrash and Charles Henry Alston during the unprecedented financial crisis.
Nayeon Park and Sabrina Bekirova
December 5, 2023
Artist Alethea Pace smiling during her interview at Joseph Rodman Drake Park and Enslaved African Burial in The Bronx
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Artist Alethea Pace's Listening with: Drake Park | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025
During her residency at The Met, Alethea Pace is taking a process-centered approach and discovering what the work will be alongside her community.
Alethea Pace
October 5, 2023
Dancers from Ballet Hispánico perform at the courtyard level of the Robert Lehmann Wing at The Met Fifth Avenue.
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Ballet Hispánico: Buscando a Juan
For this MetLiveArts commission, Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro reacts to the ideas presented in the exhibit Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter with Buscando a Juan (“Looking for Juan”) and explores the “sancocho”—literally, mixed soup—of cultures and diasporas.
September 19, 2023
Close-up of the marble statue of Nydia, The Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii, made by Randolph Rogers, from her above her shoulders showing a young girl with closed eyes and a hand cupped around her right ear in a gesture suggesting it aids her hearing. Nydia’s face is directly facing the camera. The sculpture is in the American Wing Engelhard Sculpture Court at The Met, a skylit space with direct, dramatic natural light.
Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii
"No place for a blind girl in a city of ash."
Georgina Kleege
July 10, 2023