‘Harlem has always been evolving’: inside the Studio Museum’s $160m new home

<p>The iconic museum, which was founded in 1968, has been rehoused in 82,000-sq-ft building providing a new destination for Black art in New York City</p><p>Call it the second Harlem renaissance. On Manhattan’s 125th Street, where a statue of Adam Clayton Powell Jr strides onwards and upwards, and a sign marks the spot where a freed Nelson Mandela dropped by, there is bustle and buzz.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/apollo-theater-renovation-nyc.html" title="">The celebrated Apollo Theater</a> is in the midst of a major renovation. The National Black Theatre is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/sep/27/national-black-theatre-new-york-expansion">preparing to move</a> into a $80m arts complex spanning a city block. In September the National Urban League <a href="https://nul.org/news/opening-empowerment-center-harlem-marks-milestone-national-urban-league-history-under">opened</a> a $250m building containing its headquarters, affordable housing and retail space with New York’s first civil rights museum to come.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/11/harlem-studio-museum-new-home">Continue reading...</a>