The Harlem Renaissance — known then as the "New Negro Movement" — saw the rise of jazz, the launch of such literary careers as Langston Hughes' and Zora Neale Hurston's, and a new sense of ...

The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that we’ve never published, showing the people and the art that they created. By The New York Times By The New ...

was among the most influential voices of the Harlem Renaissance. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, advocating for racial pride and economic independence for Black Americans.

Sometimes it’s the sleepers that stay with you. In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still ...

The book, out Tuesday, is a fictionalization of the lives of many of the Harlem Renaissance’s key figures, including Hughes, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the woman credited as the whole ...

Since then, The Met has significantly expanded its holdings of works by Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance, including paintings by Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett and Charles Alston.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” When we think about the Harlem ...

The Met includes some half dozen works by Reiss in “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a landmark exhibition largely devoted to portraiture. Reiss’s “Two Public School ...

“She’s not only a varied literature writer; the portrait is by Aaron Douglas, who is not only one of the leading Harlem Renaissance artists, and the loan of that portrait is from Fisk Universit ...

The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. In January 1969, the Metropolitan ...