The Met’s New Exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance Reveals How Black Artists Used Fashion and Art to Control Their Own Narratives
A young couple poses in their shiny new Cadillac on West 127th Street in Harlem. The woman wears a cloche hat and, with a slight smile, offers a cold gaze from under the wide brim of the fedora. They both wear flamboyant ankle-length raccoon coats. James Van Der Zee’s 1932 photograph “Couple” is among the… Read More »