The Met’s delightful show “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” illuminates a curious trend in 15th- and 16th-century painting: the slow reveal. The works on view, originally concealed in special cases and behind sliding or reversible panels, gamify the experience of looking at portraiture; they have to be moved,
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The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
The After-Party If the Civic Club dinner was the seed of the movement, the Opportunity dinner was where its growth gained momentum. Hughes, then in his early 20s, had returned from Paris and won first prize for what would be considered his signature poem, “The Weary Blues.” Hurston had come
The Artist Louise Giovanelli on Pop Stars, Religion and the Renaissance
One morning in late February, inside a vast storage facility in London, the painter Louise Giovanelli glanced over half a dozen of her works as they were crated up for a solo show at the White Cube gallery in Hong Kong. The outsize canvases pictured film stars with their eyes
Six Artists on the Enduring Impact of the Harlem Renaissance
Derek Fordjour traces his interest in Harlem Renaissance art to his childhood in Tennessee, where he saw Aaron Douglas’s murals at Fisk University, and to his art history classes at Morehouse. “I was completely riveted by the contributions that the Harlem Renaissance artists had made to art history,” he said
With ‘Gems’ From Black Collections, the Harlem Renaissance Reappears
How do you measure the United States in the 20th century without Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington? You wouldn’t dream of it. The writers, poets, singers and musicians of the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, centering around the New York neighborhood from 1919 to
Beyonce’s Documentary ‘Should Have Been a Hit’! Why the ‘Renaissance’ Movie Was a Box Office Disaster
Any other year, Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé would be considered a hit. But relative to Taylor Swift’s record breaking Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour ($249.9 million worldwide and counting), Beyoncé’s concert doc has flopped at the box office. After debuting at No. 1 the first weekend of December, earning $21
Botticelli Beyond the Renaissance
As the largest loan exhibition of Botticelli in the United States to date, “Botticelli Drawings,” at the Legion of Honor, sounds at first like a celebration of a Renaissance talent on the order of the Metropolitan Museum’s celebration of Michelangelo’s drawings from a few years ago. But this is not
A rare treat: a painting by Renaissance master Titian is on display at a high school
The work attributed to Titian hangs between two other paintings of Saint Sebastian in the gallery of Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in Miami. Armando Colls hide caption toggle caption Armando Colls The work attributed to Titian hangs between two other paintings of Saint Sebastian in the gallery of Belen Jesuit
12 African Artists Leading a Culture Renaissance Around the World
In one of his famed self-portraits, Omar Victor Diop, a Senegalese photographer and artist, wears a three-piece suit and an extravagant paisley bow tie, preparing to blow a yellow, plastic whistle. The elaborately staged photograph evokes the memory of Frederick Douglass, the one-time fugitive slave who in the 19th century
Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour Fuels a Small-Business Boom
When Virgo season dawned, Beyoncé — perhaps the world’s most famous Virgo, who named a track on her seventh album, “Renaissance,” after the star sign — had a birthday request. The performer, now in the last month of her Renaissance World Tour, posted a message on her website and Instagram