Today in reviews, writer Zoë Hopkins visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s landmark show on the Harlem Renaissance.
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April 08, 2024

Good morning! Today in reviews, writer Zoë Hopkins visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s landmark show on the Harlem Renaissance and reflects on the movement’s enduring resonance.


And in an opinion piece, trailblazing artist Renée Cox considers racism in the art world and embodying the radical Black women depicted in her photography. “That work does not stop when I put the camera down,” she says.


We also report on a group of anti-Zionist Jewish artists who withdrew from a show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in California, and more below, including gems and overheard exchanges at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair and Dallas Art Fair.

— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor

The Internationalism of the Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a globally networked movement of sprawling self-determination energized by the new modalities of Black subjectivity.

Zoë Hopkins

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  • Anti-Zionist Jewish artists withdraw from a show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, asking the institution to divest from “pro-Zionist foundation funding.”

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FAIRS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

The New York Antiquarian Book Fair Returns With Its Eclectic Clamor

Blue jeans patents, suffragette cookbooks, noise-making 19th-century children’s books, and so much more.

Lisa Yin Zhang

Eavesdropping at the Dallas Art Fair

It's said you can't rush a Dallas collector through a sale, and it's the Southern style to wait for a preview to end before closing.

Angella d’Avignon

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A look at the failed, racially charged takedown of dealer-activist Amar Singh.

Renée Cox

A Romp Through the History of Beauty

Asking the question of how beauty is sold or how beauty trends change would be more effective in The Cult of Beauty than aiming for both and answering neither.

Alice Procter

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