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Harlem Is Everywhere, New Podcast, Will Wilson, Date Night [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Harlem Is Everywhere, A New Podcast from The Met]( [Harlem Is Everywhere, A New Podcast from The Met]( Hear from a dynamic cast of speakers to learn how music, fashion, literature, and art shaped a modern Black identity during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. Presented alongside the exhibition [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism](, on view at The Met through July 28, 2024. [Listen now →]( [The Sounds of The Block]( [The Sounds of The Block]( How does the rediscovery of an audio component for Romare Bearden's monumental collage transform our understanding of it? [Read now →]( [A Conversation with Will Wilson]( [A Conversation with Will Wilson]( Will Wilson's photography, rooted in his upbringing on the Navajo Nation, intertwines the past, present, and future of Indigenous cultural practices. [Read now →]( [Collapsing Space and Time]( [Collapsing Space and Time]( Learn more about the collection of exhibition catalogs on contemporary Korean art available for browsing at Watson Library.[Explore now →]( [Library Date Night ]( [Library Date Night]( Visit Watson Library for a Special Behind-the-Scenes Tour offered as part of Date Night at The Met once per month (check online for exact dates and times). [Learn more →]( [Exhibitions]( [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism]( [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism]( JUST OPENED Through July 28, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting]( [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting]( JUST OPENED Through June 9, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Africa & Byzantium]( [Africa & Byzantium]( CLOSING SOON Through March 3, 2024 The Met Cloisters [Women Dressing Women]( [Women Dressing Women]( CLOSING SOON Through March 10, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Celebrating the Year of the Dragon]( [Celebrating the Year of the Dragon]( Through January 2025 The Met Fifth Avenue [Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt]( [Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt]( Through January 25, 2026 The Met Fifth Avenue [The African Origin of Civilization]( [The African Origin of Civilization]( Ongoing The Met Fifth Avenue [Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room]( [Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room]( Ongoing The Met Fifth Avenue [Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art]( [Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art]( UPCOMING March 5–June 16, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection]( [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection]( UPCOMING March 7–June 11, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Plan Your Visit]( See the [Plan Your Visit page]( for more information about buying tickets in advance. Please note our [current opening days and hours for each location](. See our [visitor guidelines]( for the latest health and safety updates. 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Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. [Donate now.]( Comments are welcome at [metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org](mailto:MetMuseum_Newsletter@metmuseum.org). Images: William H. Johnson (American, 1901– 1970), Street Life, Harlem, ca. 1939–40. Oil on plywood, 45 5/8 x 38 5/8 in. (116 x 98 cm). Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Gift of the Harmon Foundation (1967.59.674) | Romare Bearden (American, Charlotte, North Carolina 1911–1988 New York). [The Block](, 1971. Cut and pasted printed, colored and metallic papers, photostats, graphite, ink marker, gouache, watercolor, and ink on Masonite. 48 in. × 18 ft. (121.9 × 548.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shore, 1978 (1978.61.1-.6) © 2024, Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY | Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange. Photograph by Will Wilson | William H. Johnson (American, 1901–1970). Woman in Blue, c. 1943. Oil on burlap, 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm). Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Permanent Loan from the National Collection of Fine Art, 1969.013 | An Elephant and Keeper, India, Mughal, ca. 1650-60. Opaque color and gold on paper. Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions, Harris Brisbane Dick, and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Lila Acheson Wallace, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and funds from various donors, 2022 (2022.187) | Mosaic Panel of Preparations for a Feast, Tunisia, Carthage, late 2nd century ce. Marble, limestone, molten glass, 94 1/2 x 88 5/8 in. (240 x 225 cm). Paris, Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Antiquities (MNC 1577; Ma1796). © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Photo: Hervé Lewandowski | Claire McCardell wearing her “Future dress” (detail), 1945. Photo by Erwin Blumenfeld. © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld 2023 | The Royal Acquaintances Memi and Sabu, ca. 2575–2465 B.C. Egyptian. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1948 (48.111); Seated Couple, 18th–early 19th century. Dogon artist: Mali. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Lester Wunderman, 1977 (1977.394.15) | Roberto Lugo, Queen Abolition, 2021. Digital illustration. | Anni Albers. Pasture, 1958. Mercerized cotton. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1969 (69.135). © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2023. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Peter Zeray. | Edward Penfield (American, 1866–1925). Harper’s: February, 1897. Lithograph. 19 × 14 in. (48.3 × 35.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder Collection of American Posters, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 1984 (1984.1202.96).