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“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

Harlem Renaissance God Charles White’s Retrospective At MoMA

With Charles White: A Retrospective, The Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago present the first major museum exhibition of Charles White’s oeuvre in over 30 years, on view at The Museum of Modern Art from October 7, 2018, through January 13, 2019. Continue reading

Charles White—Leonardo da Vinci. Curated by David Hammons At MOMA

The Museum of Modern Art will display two works selected by artist David Hammons—the recently acquired Black Pope (Sandwich Board Man) (1973) and a brush and ink drapery study by Leonardo da Vinci—in Charles White—Leonardo da Vinci.Continue reading

Its The Sweet Spot Festival For Everyday People In Harlem 2017

The Sweet Spot Festival is returning to Harlem for its 6th year in a row and they say its their BEST year YET.Continue reading

HW Pick: An Evening With Faith Ringgold At Moma

Artist and activist Faith Ringgold discusses her life and art during a conversation with Anne Umland, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Thomas J. Lax, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art.Continue reading

HW Pick: Susan Cahan And Lowery Stokes Sims Talks At MOMA

This evening’s program features a great conversation between Susan Cahan and Lowery Stokes Sims focused on the Civil Rights Movement and New York’s museums from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.Continue reading

Shop Harlem: Lou Fink “Harlem” Water Color, July 1964

A wonderful watercolor on paper by the American artist Lou Fink, who designed for Tiffany, worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, MOMA, and many more, the piece is dated from July 1964.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

It Was All Good At The Teen Battle Chef Live In Harlem

On June 16, eleven New York high school students from Brooklyn Lab School, Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School and the George Washington Education Campus faced off in “Teen Battle Chef LIVE in Harlem,” an annual cooking competition celebrating achievements of students who participate in the Teen Battle Chef (TBC) program held this year at Madiba Harlem.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