Harlem Renaissance Art Comes To The Met

If there were such a thing as a time machine, I would gladly get in it and travel to the 1920s, to my favorite historical period, the Harlem Renaissance.

It would be a thrill to brush shoulders with the likes of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and sundry other writers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. Since that's not possible, the next best thing would be to visit the upcoming exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, slated to run next year from February 25 to July 28. It will be called "The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism."

According to an article in the Arts section of the New York Times ("Met Announces Harlem Renaissance Show," August 23, 2023), the show will be "New York's first major survey in nearly 40 years dedicated to one of the most influential artistic movements to have originated in the United States."

The Met will display artworks by African-American artists that will be on loan from historically black colleges and universities such as Clark Atlanta University and Howard University.

Included in the exhibition will be photographs by another Harlem Renaissance notable, James Van Der Zee.

I'm excited about this event. God willing, I don't plan to miss it.

Visiting The "Gay Gotham" Exhibit

I recently visited the "Gay Gotham" exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. I viewed the exhibit, which was on two separate floors, three times this week. I'm looking forward to doing a blog post on it.

New York's Gay Art World

I'm looking forward to seeing the Museum of the City of New York's upcoming exhibit, "Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York." It opens on October 7th and explores gay and lesbian influence on New York's art scene over the past few decades. It closes on February 26, 2017. I hope to do a report on it for this blog.