Another of the originators of the Harlem Renaissance, Charles S. Johnson worked with Alain Locke to plan the March 21 dinner. Believing that art and literature could help uplift African Americans ...

55 years after its disastrous Harlem Renaissance show that featured no art by black artists, the New York Met has another show of the modern art movement's work 160 pieces depict the realities of ...

James Van Der Zee was an African-American photographer known for his distinctive portraits from the Harlem Renaissance. The artist used photography ... held in the collections of The Museum of Modern ...

Jazz music and flapper fashion defined the era's sound and look. The Harlem Renaissance brought popularity to art created by Black Americans. The Roaring Twenties — now 100 years ago — looked ...

The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance. By Paul Lacroix, Curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.) ...

It's been a century since the artistic experimentation of the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to jazz, the music art form, in the roaring 1920s and ... to help readers get a real sense of the historical ...

3 Industry Pro Newsletter: The Arts Economic Impact in the ... focusing on writers of color and the literary movement that was central to the Harlem Renaissance. Artists are the living griots ...

Harlem deco is an interior design style is the Harlem renaissance take on art deco. This design style ... "This design movement fuses bold geometric patterns, rich materials, and afrocentric ...

Their writing and their music, a cultural movement that would become known as the Harlem Renaissance ... The Great Depression put a damper on the arts and culture across the nation -- and ...

The Legacy Ball will not only honor the Harlem Renaissance’s 100th anniversary, but celebrate its long-lasting influence on Black history, art, and fashion. WBM’s founder, Myrdith Leon ...