🎨#ArtIsAWeapon 📣#NewExhibit The @wallachartgallery @columbia and the @museeorsay Musée d’Orsay Present "Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today,” on view until February 10, 2019, at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery Lenfest Center for the Arts Columbia University 615 West 129th Street New York, NY 10027. #Harlem . . . In a sweeping re-examination of the history of modern art, Posing Modernity proposes that the changing representation of the black female figure has been central to the development of modernism from Édouard Manet’s Olympia (1863) to the present. . . . Read 📰 @nytimes "Critic's Pick" review "Overdue Light on Black Models of Early Modernism" - https://nyti.ms/2CTnCS6 . . 📷🖼- Jean Frédéric Bazille, "Young Woman with Peonies" (detail), 1870. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art @ngadc, Washington, DC. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. Image courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. #PosingModernity #ArtAndTheCity #Exhibit #WallachGallery #BlackWomen #BlackWomenModels #portraits #paintings #Art #ArtHistory #ModernArt #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 https://www.instagram.com/p/BpqjWglB8i3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1746tc0i2ibu4