The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism [Art Lecture]

The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 25-July 28, 2024) will present a survey of multi-media works by Black artists who portrayed everyday modern life in the new cities that took shape in the 1920s-40s, in New York City's Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of  African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South  Professor Thomas Germano will present a visual lecture about the exhibition at the MET.