The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism (February 26, 2024, through July 28, 2024) explores how Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York 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 display of 160 paintings, sculptures, photography, films, and ephemera demonstrates how the Harlem Renaissance and its portrayal of the modern Black subject were central to the development of international modern art. Featured artists include Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring. Their work will be juxtaposed against portrayals of international African diasporan subjects by European counterparts such as Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Germaine Casse, Jacob Epstein, and Ronald Moody. For an enhanced experience, pair this with both the museum preview of the Met's exhibit and the two walking tours of Harlem (Course 12486 and 12574), also in the catalog (separate registration required).
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