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A Conversation with Betsabeé Romero
By carving symbolic designs into recycled tires, Betsabeé Romero creates artworks that reference ancient motifs and evoke reflections on movement.
Laura Filloy Nadal
November 21, 2024
"Harlem Is Everywhere" episode 4 art, featuring Jacob Lawrence's "Pool Parlor"
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Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 4, Music & Nightlife
What were the sounds of the Harlem Renaissance?
Jessica Lynne, James Smalls, Richard J. Powell, Christian McBride, and Carl Phillips
March 12, 2024
Harlem Is Everywhere podcast art for episode 1 featuring Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr.'s Self-Portrait in blue
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Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 1, The New Negro
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Jessica Lynne, Denise Murrell, Richard J. Powell, Monica L. Miller, Bridget R. Cooks, and Mary Schmidt Campbell
February 20, 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
Black and white photograph of a woman wearing a white floral pattern outfit on the right with a potrait in the background done by Picasso of her.
Picasso on Stein
Learn how Picasso’s defining portrait of Gertrude Stein helped usher in a new era of modern art and literature.
Francesca Wade
November 22, 2023
The back of a navy blue dress with beautiful white patterning on the back and lower part of the dress and around the wrists. The dress is against a grey background and fitted onto a mannequin with a head and hands.
Art Is Art. Fashion Is Fashion.
Despite Karl Lagerfeld's insistence on the separation between art and fashion, he drew inspiration from a wide range of artistic sources.
Kai Toussaint Marcel
July 14, 2023
Adrienne Fidelin wearing a headdress decorated with cowrie shells
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Travails of the Traveling Hats: From the Congo to The Met
Discover the journey of 47 caps and headdresses from Central Africa’s Congo River basin to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
Wendy A. Grossman
September 26, 2022
Composite images of Guadeloupe-born model Adrienne Fidelin posing with elaborate headdresses
Mode au Congo: Travails of the Traveling Hats
How did a set of Congolese headdresses influence the evolution of modern fashion?
Wendy A. Grossman
September 26, 2022
A black and white photograph of two nude women in a loving embrace.
Germaine Krull’s Queer Vision
Once the toast of Paris, avant-garde photographer Germaine Krull held a mirror to queer life in interwar France.
Marina Molarsky-Beck
August 17, 2021
Modern Living by Amelia Peck
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Frank Lloyd Wright designed this pavilion as a living room and small concert space
"This was my first step into modernism, which after this I began to appreciate more and more."
Amelia Peck
January 31, 2013