Join us for a captivating journey with the Art Club as we delve into the vibrant legacy of the Harlem Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We are looking forward to seeing and discussing the current exhibition, The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Learn more about the exhibition here and below.

We will plan to have lunch together at the Met. Please RSVP if you are attending and then email Rebecca at rebeccarivard@me.com if you would like to be included in the lunch reservation/headcount.

Those who would like to travel by car with other Yellow Studio Members, please meet at Yellow Studio at 9am. If you prefer to take the train from Katonah, we recommend the 9:07am train. 

At least one car will depart NYC at 2:30pm and head back to Yellow Studio.

All Yellow Studio Members are welcome!

Depending on the size of our group, please expect to pay $5 to $10 for a ticket to the Met. 

Exhibition overview from the Met:

“In February 2024, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, it will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in 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 will establish 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 will be 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.”

Featured artwork: Mother and Daughter by Laura Wheeler Waring, ca. 1927