The Harlem Renaissance: expansive exhibition celebrates a vital cultural era

The Met is hosting the first major look at the work of Black artists during the era since 1987, making the link between their work and European modernism“The Harlem Renaissance should be central to how we think about the modernist period. It should be essential to the way we define and articulate not just African-American identity but American identity.” The Met curator Denise Murrell recently shared with me the animating idea behind her new blockbuster exhibition, The Harlem Renaiss