REGISTRATION CLOSED – Curator-Led Tour of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism Exhibit – ALUMNI ONLY / IN-PERSON
Date: Jun 05, 2024Time: 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM
Jun052024
REGISTRATION CLOSED – Curator-Led Tour of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism Exhibit – ALUMNI ONLY / IN-PERSON
Description
Join an exclusive tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism exhibition. The tour will be led by Denise M. Murrell, PhD (MBA 1980), the exhibition’s curator and Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large at the MET.
This groundbreaking exhibition, The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, explores the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern 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.
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 portrayals of international African diasporan subjects by European counterparts ranging from Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso to Germaine Casse, Jacob Epstein, and Ronald Moody.
A significant percentage of the paintings, sculpture, and works on paper on view in the exhibition come from the extensive collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), including Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Fisk University Galleries, Hampton University Art Museum, and Howard University Gallery of Art. Other major lenders include the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, with pending loans from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The exhibition includes loans from significant private collections and major European lenders.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required.A waiting list will be kept once the event is full. Please contact Programming@hbscny.org to be added.
FOR SECURITY REASONS, NO WALK-INS ARE PERMITTED
Please note that no refunds will be issued.
By registering for this event you agree to abide by the HBSCNY Code of Conduct (read here).
By registering for this event you agree to abide by the HBSCNY Code of Conduct (read here).
Bios
Speaker
Denise Murrell, MBA 1980
Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large, Office of the Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Denise, who joined The Met in January 2020, received her PhD in art history from Columbia University in 2014. She was previously the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University (2014–2019), where she was the curator of the exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today (October 2018–February 2019) and a co-curator of its expansion at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Le modèle noir de Gericault à Matisse (March–July 2019). Denise previously received an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked in finance and consulting. She has taught art history at Columbia University in New York and in Paris. In May 2024, Denise received the John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award at the HBS Club of New York 55th Annual Leadership Dinner.
Date Time
Date: Jun 05, 2024Time: 12:15 PM to 1:30 PMLocation
Metropolitan Museum of Art1000 5th AvenueNew York, NY 10028View Map
Price
- 50 / Alumni Registration
Organizer
Sayiddah McCree, MBA 2017Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10028
