Studio Museum of Harlem

Manhattan's landmark museums -think MoMA, the Met and the Guggenheim - draw crowds during the busy fall season as marquee shows travel to these venues; a Kandinsky retrospective at the Guggenheim, a famous Vermeer at the Metropolitan. But farther uptown is the less-known Studio Museum of Harlem. Now in its fortieth year, the "Studio Museum is the nexus for black artists locally, nationally, and internationally, and for work that has been inspired by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society."

An intimate and accessible space, the Studio Museum offers a compelling and varied range of exhibitions. Currently on view; British painter Hurvin Anderson's series of 1950s-era barbershops that popped up around London in the attics and homes of Caribbean immigrants; work by three artists-in-residence and; an exhibition featuring several young (teen) photographers demonstrating remarkable clarity of vision into urban hope and limitation.

The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday. A modest donation of $7 is suggested (Target Stores sponsors Target Free Sundays year-round).

Studio Museum of Harlem
144 West 125th Street, New York, New York
Studio Museum of Harlem