Art Appreciation in the Next Two Months

Art Appreciation

A weekly art lecture on the Harlem Renaissance that was inspired by the Met's exceedingly popular exhibit will continue throughout the next two months. Each class stands on its own and new students are welcome to join for as many or as few sessions as they like. Register now to catch any of the next five classes in the series. Classes are recorded and may be watched on demand for one week after the session.

Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

During the Great Migration, millions of African Americans moved from the segregated rural South to cities throughout the country, including New York City's Harlem. This series considers the extensive and expansive ways in which Black artists captured everyday modern life in Harlem and across America, with the Black subject as its center. Inspired by the Met’s exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, this series explores paintings, sculpture, and photographs by Black American artists working from 1920 to 1940 and by the European artists who engaged with aspects of the international African Diaspora, the transatlantic nature of the movement, as well as Black artists from the later part of the twentieth century up to the present whose work owed much to their predecessors from the Harlem Renaissance.

PAGE KNOX is an adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University, where she received her PhD in 2012. She lectures widely in museums in New York City.

Luminaries and Nightlife

Wednesday, November 13 • 11:00am-12:00pm •

Zoom • Course 12669 • $30

Family and Society, Issues of Color, Beauford Delaney and Winold Reiss

Wednesday, November 20 • 12:00pm-1:00pm •

Zoom • Course 12670 • $30

Resistance and Looking to the Future, Romare Bearden

Wednesday, December 4 • 11:00am-12:00pm •

Zoom • Course 12671 • $30

Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, and Alma Thomas

Wednesday, December 11 • 11:00am-12:00pm •

Zoom • Course 12672 • $30