The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

This important exhibition highlights the Great Migration of Black people from the South, marked by a burst of artistic creativity and influence known as the Harlem Renaissance. Roughly 160 works­—paintings, photography, sculpture, film and more—explore how Black artists portrayed everyday life in the “new Black cities” in Harlem and elsewhere in the early 20th century, changing how the modern Black subject was represented in art and its influence on modern art thereafter. Expect artists like Aaron Douglas, Augusta Savage, Charles Alston and Meta Warrick Fuller, juxtaposed with European counterparts such as Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch and Henri Matisse.