The Harlem Renaissance at the MET NYC

The OLLI at BCC Special Events Committee presents an afternoon at

The Harlem Renaissance at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

This groundbreaking exhibition explores the far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed modern life in the Roaring Twenties. 160 works of painting, sculpture, film, photographs and ephemera explore Black lives and experience in 1920s–40s Harlem in the decades of the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans moved out of the segregated Jim Crow South. The exhibition establishes the Harlem Renaissance as a central facet in the development of modern art. Many of the paintings and sculptures come from the extensive collections of Historically Black Colleges/Universities and from private collections here and in Europe.

Other exhibits at the MET can be explored here: www.metmuseum.org/exhibits 

Lunch and afternoon on your own to explore and enjoy a day at the incomparable Metropolitan Museum!

Tickets include morning snack, admissions, docent tour, supper on return trip, information packet, bus.

Schedule:

• 7:10 a.m. departure from Stop and Shop Parking Lot, 1 Dan Fox Dr, Pittsfield
• 8:00 a.m. departure from Price Chopper Parking Lot, 3o0 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington
• 11:30 a.m. begin tours (slightly staggered start times) followed by free time at museum
• 3:45 p.m. Board Bus
• 7:00 p.m. Approximate arrival Great Barrington
  7:45 p.m. Arrive Pittsfield
  

Tickets:
$125 OLLI members
$135 non-members

Thank you to OLLI at BCC's Special Events Committee for organizing this and so many other great OLLI events!

Special Events Chair: Arline Breskin
Questions: call OLLI office 413.236.2190