Gothamist

'The Gay Harlem Renaissance' exhibit spotlights queer Black artists who shaped history

A new art exhibition opening this fall in New York City invites visitors to explore a lesser-known but vital chapter of the Harlem Renaissance: the queer artists, writers and performers who helped ...
The New York Times

Inside 100 Years of the Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that we’ve never published, showing the people and the art that they created. By The New York Times By The New York ...
The New York Times

The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

A century ago, a dinner party in New York set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century. It was an interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic ...
The Grio

50 years on, Harlem Week shows how a New York City neighborhood went from crisis to renaissance

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a mass exodus known as urban flight ...
The New Yorker

Brightening the History of Harlem

I first learned about Denise Murrell—the curator and scholar behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s big and shiny new spectacle, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” (through July ...