The Nevada Museum of Art today opened two major exhibitions that celebrate the spirit of American resilience — Dorothea Lange: Seeing People and When Langston Hughes Came to Town. The Harlem ...

Aaron Douglas had been making powerful murals for almost a decade when he created “Into Bondage,” a painting now at the National Gallery of Art.Douglas (1899-1979) was one of the most ...

Aaron Douglas, Aspiration (1936) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism" exhibition. Photo by Ben Davis.

In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still life by Aaron Douglas.

The Harlem Renaissance, as it would be known, was overflowing with the cultural contributions of luminaries such as Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. But it lacked a visual ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art mounts an almost overwhelmingly ambitious exhibition focused on black art from the 1920s through the ’40s.

Ad Policy This article appears in the April 2024 issue. Aaron Douglas, from Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction, 1934. (Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) In January ...

One of the art colonies featured in this year's Pageant is New York's Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that celebrated art and African American culture in the 1920s and 30s.