Members: $15; non-members: $20 for the series (drop ins also welcome)

Art historian Serdar Arat is back with a two-part lecture series that looks at how African and African-diasporic artists helped shape modern art around the world. We’ll explore the Harlem Renaissance alongside European modernists to see how artists learned from one another and pushed new styles forward. We’ll also look at global traditions that inspired Western art in the 19th and 20th centuries. These talks offer an accessible, visually rich look at how cultures connect and influence each other through art.

This session:Referencing Metropolitan Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” we will explore the masterworks of major Harlem Renaissance artists including Jacob Lawrence, Agusta Savage, Archibald Motley, and others, in dialogue with their European counterparts such as Picasso, Braque, and Gaugin. We will compare and analyze  American and European, realistic and abstract, and traditional and modern art.