“Discursively, this location of Harlem to the forces of cultural encounters, assimilations, and oppositions is perhaps the most interesting part of ‘Rhapsodies in Black’ . . . . [The] exhibition calls on us to meditate on the idea of black modernity as part of the consequence of the transition of the world economy into industrialization. It offers a vision of Harlem as a real space, and its culture as important within a historical moment. The curators generously offered the view, rarely reciprocated by most surveys of modern art . . . that 20th century modernity has always been transcultural, transnational, often through the efforts of émigrés.” Okwui Enwezor, exhibition review of Rhapsodies in Art: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring/Summer 1998.
Rhapsodies in Black: The Art of the Harlem Renaissance. With David A. Bailey, et al. London & Berkeley: University of California, 1997.
