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The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be hosting New York's first art museum survey of the Harlem Renaissance art movement since 1987. The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism will encompass 160 works of art across a range of mediums.  Spanning paintings, sculpture, and on-paper works, the pieces included in the forthcoming exhibit work together to explore the comprehensive ways in which Black artists depicted everyday life in the 1920s through the 1940s in the new Black cities that arose in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood as well as Chicago's South Side and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration.Opening on February 25 2024 at The Met, the exhibit is slated to feature works from Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Mo...

When trying to discern why music is often described as "vague", American jazz violinist Matt Glaser once noted: it's not music, which "expresses human experience so specifically", that is falling short, but of language itself. Although he works in a different creative field altogether, Canadian artist Geoff McFetridge has built much of his career centered around this very thought. Not in terms of music, per say, but in the idea of describing the ineffable through paint and sculpture. Housed at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, his latest solo exhibition The Organic Interface revolves around the following question — "How can images explain and communicate thoughts that are in between our understandings?" Displayed across a new series of paintings, drawings, and sculpture, McFetridge looks to bridge...

American artist R. Crumb revolutionized the medium of comic art in the '60s and '70s for his unapologetic reflection on society, often injecting his own fantasies and experiences through his signature cross-hatch aesthetic. While he never quite condoned some of the more grotesque depictions in his work, Crumb used his art to comment on the environment which he was raised in — or the "rotten core of America" as he's referred to it in the past. Much like his oeuvre, Crumb's latest release is deeply personal. Produced via David Zwirner's Platform art shop, Shape Up! Yoga Mat (2023) is a limited edition artwork dedicated to his late wife, Aline — a devout yogi — who passed away earlier this year. Originally made as a drawing, the artwork was translated into a yoga mat to advertise an exercise ...