From the African Grove Theater , founded in 1821 by William Alexander Brown in New York City, to today’s Broadway, Black artists have continually transformed American theater, even when America tried ...
The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...
Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...
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The Gay Harlem Renaissance: Black Queer Voices That Shaped Culture
The Harlem Renaissance made Harlem a hub of Black creativity in the 1920s and 1930s. In jazz clubs, literary salons, and speakeasies, Black queer artists expressed themselves, challenged norms, and ...
Zora Neale Hurston, the celebrated Harlem Renaissance author, wanted to stage a play with an all-Black cast at Rollins ...
The Phillips Collection was founded amid a president’s calls for a return to “normalcy”, and today the museum is addressing a ...
From fried chicken to collard greens, Harlem’s soul food scene is thriving with iconic spots that everyone in New York is ...
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New exhibits highlight African American, Native American art at Detroit’s world-class art museum
The Center for African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts was the first department of its kind in the nation when ...
American music, at its core, is inseparable from a history defined by reinvention, resilience, and Black artists.
Over the course of its 15 minute run, Drag will see Slack embodying and exploring Bentley’s life and perspective, from the the outlandish creative heights of her days in Harlem to the heel-turn in the ...
Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.
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