Museum of Modern Art Archives - Harlem World Magazine

“Charles White: A Retrospective” At MOMA NY

The Museum of Modern Art’s "Charles White: A Retrospective," on view from October 7, 2018, through January 13, 2019, is the first major exhibition dedicated to Charles White (1918–1979) in over three decades. Continue reading

“Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power” With Susan E. Cahan In Harlem

Consider this: Prior to 1967, fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions in the U.S. had featured the work of African American artists.Continue reading

MoMA And The Schomburg Launch Talk Series

The Museum of Modern Art and The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture launch a new series of public conversations addressing the meaning of equity in contemporary culture and society, and the steps required for progress. Continue reading

Steffani Jemison Sings Harlem Inspired Promise Machine At MOMA

On Thursday, June 25th, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison presents her new multipart commission Promise Machine, inspired by the Utopia Neighborhood Club, a Harlem-based women’s social service organization that directly supported Jacob Lawrence. Continue reading

Reading Of Harlem’s Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ Poetry Suite (video)

Ten celebrated poets, selected by Elizabeth Alexander, read their poems inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series at the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA), in New York. Continue reading

MoMA Launches Walking Tour Of Jacob Lawrence’s Harlem

The current Museum of Modern Art exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North expands uptown, beyond the Museum's galleries, with the launch of a self-guided walking tour that explores the Harlem that nurtured Lawrence as a young artist in the 1930s.Continue reading