Tag: Cosmopolitan
The Cosmopolitan Modernism of the Harlem Renaissance
Books & the Arts
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April 15, 2024
The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance.
A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance.
In January 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened an exhibition dedicated to the vibrant history of Harlem—the
Elias Canetti: The Last Cosmopolitan
Elias Canetti belonged to Europe’s 20th century. It was a period of extreme horrors that gave way to a slow but determined effort to heal. The scale of the suffering that he and millions of others witnessed in the first half of the century led to the pledge—“Never again!”—that was supposed to define its second half. But history has a way of relapsing. While no conflict since then has matched the violence of World War II,