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New Pop-Up Exhibit Explores Harlem’s Legacy as a Fashion Hub
55 years ago, fashion pioneer Lois K Alexander Lane founded the Harlem Institute of Fashion and later, the Black Fashion museum, to show the world how the Black community was and is …
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
$45.00
Since 1968, The Studio Museum in Harlem has been a center for and a champion of Black art and Black culture. The new book Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem …
Harlem Toile Wallpaper
$300.00
Designed by Sheila Bridges (who has helmed an eponymous interior design studio since 1994), this gorgeous Harlem Toile wallpaper features images not seen on classic Toile de Jouy. Rather than European pastoral …
East Harlem: The Postwar Years
$42.00
Through images photographed between 1949 and 1950, Leo Goldstein’s East Harlem: The Postwar Years tenderly depicts the lives of that era’s newest immigrants, Puerto Ricans. A Russian-Jewish immigrant himself, Goldstein used photography …
The Overlooked Art of Norman Lewis as Explained by Tarin M Fuller, Director of His Estate
Following a recent acquisition by the Whitney Museum, the artist is finding a new audience 40 years after his death
Dapper Dan’s Harlem
$200.00
Created in collaboration with Gucci and limited to an edition of 500, Dapper Dan’s Harlem is a leather-bound book centered around the influential designer/haberdasher’s influence on hip-hop culture. Printed in Italy, the book …
Sundance 2017: Chef Marcus Samuelsson’s Global Menu
Red Rooster's mastermind on Water.org, a Cidre cocktail, his cookbook and the forthcoming London restaurant
BHDM Design
The design duo create spaces that tell stories and their latest project—a craft beer bar called Hog’s Head—will open in May
Paris Is Burning
$18.00
Madonna did not invent the vogue. Instead she borrowed it from NYC’s black and Latino gay, transvestite and transsexual communities, who were known for their outlandish costumes and dance moves. “Paris Is …