The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism Exhibit

Join us at The Met to view the groundbreaking exhibition" The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism", which explores the comprehensive and far-reaching ways Black artists portrayed everyday life.

Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, explore the new Black 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.

The first art museum survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the exhibition establishes the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern Black subject as central to the development of international modern art.

The entry fee to The Met is generally free or a donation for people living in New York. You must show your NY ID or Driver's License or $30 fee if you live outside of New York.

Featured artists include Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring. These artists are shown in direct juxtaposition with European counterparts' portrayals of international African diasporan subjects ranging from Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso to Germaine Casse, Jacob Epstein, and Ronald Moody.