The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts > Exhibitions

Harlem is...Music

From February 6, 2006 through April 13, 2006
Plaza Lobby and Steinberg Room Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498 (directions)

Thelonius Monk, 1947
The Minton's Playhouse PHOTO CREDIT: Copywright William P. Goittlieb, Library of Congress Collection PICTURED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Portrait of Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947

Harlem is...Music is a component of Community Works' signature multilayered public art exhibition developed with NYC public schools and after school programs. The exhibit explores Harlem's unrivaled musical tradition through archival and contemporary photographs, commentary by contributing writers and poetry and prose by Harlem public school students. It examines the development of 8 musical genres: Jazz, blues, R&B, hip-hop and rap, gospel, classical, Latin, and fusion.