The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum: Rewarding, incomplete look at contributions of African-Americans to art and culture in first half of 20th century

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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum: Rewarding, incomplete look at contributions of African-Americans to art and culture in first half of 20th century

… Renaissance was “the first African American-led movement of international … instance, the most famous African American painter from the 1940s … time when many other Black American expatriate artists opted for … in the case of African-American artists—because they …

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