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Harlem's New Renaissance 
Market rents haven't kept artists from finding affordable
studios or apartments in Harlem. They all make a point of Harlem's
accessibility: an express subway on the east or west side of Manhattan, can go
from 125th to 14th Street in under 15 minutes. For people, that puts
Harlem in much easier reach than Chelsea or DUMBO.
Other attractions include plenty of light and air and some of
the most distinctive architecture in New York; the Lenox Lounge, a favored
hangout; and The Project, which poet and critic Christian Hay opened in
1998. Most important, it has the Studio Museum. Over the last two
years, under Sims and deputy director Thelma Golden, this 33-year-old
institution has completely reinvented itself. As
provocative exhibitions, like last year's "Freestyle" has introduced
what Golden has called the "post black" generation of African American
artists to a receptive mainstream market, the museum has metamorphosed from a
homespun sanctuary for modernist black art into a beacon of the avant-garde.
Along with The project, the museum is now
widely regarded as the single most important magnet drawing art audiences to
Harlem and emerging artists to set down roots there.
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