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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: “Beauty Unadorned: ‘Fire!!’ and the Harlem Rena
 issance”
LOCATION:Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library\, 121 Wall Street\, New H
 aven\, CT 06511
DESCRIPTION:“Beauty Unadorned: ‘Fire!!’ and the Harlem Renaissance” celebr
 ates the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance experimental magazine “Fire
 !!.” The first and only issue appeared on November 15\, 1926\, and is rem
 embered for its transgression of the era’s social codes\, its formal expe
 rimentation\, and its unabashed manifesto embracing Black art for art’s s
 ake.\n\n“Fire!!” reflected the ethos and vision of the younger generation
  of the New Negro movement — including Langston Hughes\, Zora Neale Hurst
 on\, and Wallace Thurman — who insisted on their artistic freedom\, witho
 ut concern for the older generation’s preoccupation with respectability. 
 The exhibition showcases correspondence\, early written drafts\, photogra
 phs\, and artworks from these writers and thinkers as well as other contr
 ibutors and friends\, drawn from Beinecke Library’s James Weldon Johnson 
 Memorial Collection.\n\nCurator: Melissa Barton\, American Literature\n\n
 Please join us on Thursday\, November 12\, 2026\, for the joint opening c
 elebration of “Beauty Unadorned: “Fire!!” and the Harlem Renaissance\,” a
 nd the exhibitions “Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry\, ”and “Satire\, 
 Sympathy\, and Social Critique: William Hogarth's Progress Prints.”\n\nRe
 marks begin at 4:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.\n\nht
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