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The Studio Museum in Harlem is an African-art museum at 144 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 1968, the museum collects, preserves and interprets art created by African Americans, members of the African diaspora, [1] and artists from the African continent ...
Inspired by the masonry architecture of Harlem and its rich artistic and cultural landscape, the design distinctly plays on familiar architectural tropes of Harlem, such as frames, apertures and doorways.
Expressing the character of the community of the Studio Museum in Harlem, while advancing the institution’s global role, the architectural design for the institution’s new home takes its inspiration from the brownstones, churches, and bustling sidewalks of Harlem.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Located on 125th Street, one of Harlem’s main thoroughfares and co-named Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the new building seeks to push the museum typology to a new place through a fresh approach to both displaying and receiving art.
For over thirty years The Studio Museum in Harlem has been recognized for its catalytic role in promoting African American art and artists within the mainstream of the art work in the United States and on the global arena.
The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture.
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The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by Black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.
