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The Metropolitan Museum's new Harlem Renaissance exhibit presents the Twentieth Century movement as a central force in modern art, a bold reframing that many view as long overdue.Met officials describe the show as a landmark in casting the Harlem Renaissance "as the first African American-led movement of international modern art," as Met Chief Executive Max Hollein says in the exhibit's press release.
Plus, who showed up at the Met's opening for their Harlem Renaissance show? What notorious "good guy" of the art world threw the party of the week?
It explores the many ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday life living in Harlem in the 1920s and '40s.
Read about Sarvajna, a stalwart whose vachanas highlighted social evils. His vachanas are relevant even today. Celebrate Sarvajna Jayanti in Mysuru with the district administration and Kannada and Culture department at Kalamandira.
See a list of 20 works that faced claims of looting, plundering, and theft, from the Elgin Marbles to modernist masterpieces.