Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at theMet
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism (February 26, 2024, through July 28, 2024) explores how Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York 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 display of 160 paintings, sculptures, photography, films, and ephemera demonstrates how the Harlem Renaissance and its portrayal of the modern Black subject were 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. Their work will be juxtaposed against portrayals of international African diasporan subjects by European counterparts such as Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Germaine Casse, Jacob Epstein, and Ronald Moody. For an enhanced experience, pair the museum preview, either of the two walking tours of the Met's exhibit, and the two walking tours of Harlem (Courses 12486 and 12574 listed under History and Culture), also in the catalog (separate registration required). PAGEKNOX (see bio for “Contemporary Artists of the Post-Pandemic Art Scene”). Museum Preview: Thursday, April 18 • 4:00pm-5:00pm • Zoom • Course 12462 • $28 Walking Tour: Tuesday, April 30 • 11:00am-12:30pm 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12461 • $80 Walking Tour: Thursday, June 27 • 12:30pm-2:00pm 1:30pm-3:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12614 • $80 HELENLEE is an independent art educator, conducting research and crafting personal, customizable, in-person and virtual gallery experiences for adults and children at several museums. She studied art history as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with areas of concentration in Asian Art and Modern Art. Walking Tour: Thursday, March 7 • 1:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12418 • $80 Walking Tour: Faces of Europe at the Met The Met's galleries dedicated to European Paintings from 1300 to 1800 reopened on November 20, 2023, following the completion of a five-year renovation. Reconfigured into a chronological sequence of more than 700 artworks, the galleries illuminate the interconnectedness of cultures, materials, and moments across national and geographically-based artistic schools and movements. Featured are longstanding strengths of the Met's collection — such as masterpieces by Jan van Eyck, Caravaggio, Poussin, El Greco, and Goya — while works by women artists and pieces that illustrate Europe’s complex relationships with New Spain and the Viceroyalty of Peru and the histories of class, gender, race, and religion are now also incorporated. Consider European paintings within the greater arc of history and artistic production as they are juxtaposed with works from other curatorial areas, including sculptures, metalwork, decorative arts, musical instruments, arms and armor, and modern art. HELENLEE (see bio for “ The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Met”). France, Spain, and England: Monday, March 18 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12499 • $85
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