The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and dancing located on Lenox Avenue in the Harlem area of Manhattan. The Savoy was called the "World's Finest Ballroom" by many people during the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes, a poet, called it the "Heartbeat of Harlem" in his poem, Juke Box Love Song. He also set his poem "Lenox Avenue: Midnight" on the same street.
The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. [more]
Jazz
This five-minute video consists of a compilation of different styles of jazz and different artists from the year 1935 and beyond. Although the title of the video says 1920s, it is in fact after that. Many different artists featured in this video have impacted the world of jazz and music in general.
The Shrimp Girl
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Jazz
This video contains the musical stylings of several different musicians from the Harlem Renaissance time area. Although the video title says 1920s, it is in fact musicians from 1935 and above. The jazz musicians featured in this video have impacted the world of jazz and music in general to this day.
The Cotton Club
The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub located in the Harlem neighborhood. A prominent bootlegger and gangster, Owney Madden, took over the club in 1923. The Cotton Club was a whites-only establishment even though many of the most popular black entertainers of the era performed there, including musicians Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and several others.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
