# Harlem: Found Ways ![Found Ways](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/coopergallery/files/h2.jpg) ## Summer 2017 The exhibition Harlem: Found Ways presented artistic visions and engagements specific to Harlem, New York City, in the last decades. Each artwork employed a distinct set of inquiries and innovative strategies to explore the Harlem community’s visual heritage as it grapples with the challenges of gentrification. ### Press expand\_more [### Bay State Banner: 'When Construction Comes: Cooper Gallery exhibit highlights Harlem gentrification' ](https://www.baystatebanner.com/2017/05/31/when-construction-comes-cooper-gallery-exhibit-highlights-harlem-gentrification/) May 31, 2017 ![“Young Man, West 127th Street,”](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/Dawoud_Bey_-_Young_Man_2.jpg?itok=HWItxWTd) [### Color Magazine: 'Harlem: Found Ways' ](https://colormagazine.com/harlem-found-ways/) July 09, 2017 ![Harlem](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/harlem.png?itok=GSfBLrp_) [### Harvard Gazette: 'Images of Harlem, then and now' ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/06/dawoud-beys-harlem-photographs-part-of-harvard-cooper-gallery-exhibit/) June 01, 2017 ![Gazette image](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/dawoud-bey-photo-jason-smikle-1_605_main.jpg?itok=2cFtNHdK) [### Harvard Magazine: Finding Harlem ](http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/06/harlem) June 27, 2017 ![Abigail DeVille’s New York at Dawn](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/Cooper_Harlem_Install_0.jpg?itok=wtp1CRhB) [### Huffington Post: 'Harlem at Harvard' ](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harlem-at-harvard_b_5a307c06e4b0b73dde46a86e) December 14, 2017 ![Harlem](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/h2.png?itok=0EEj9qQV) ### LIT expand\_more ## LIT [### Dawoud Bey - Harlem, U.S.A ](/news/dawoud-bey-harlem-usa) June 26, 2012 Dawoud Bey - Harlem, U.S.A By Dawoud Bey, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and Matthew S. Witkovsky Art Institute of Chicago; First Edition edition (June 26, 2012) ISBN-10: 0300181264 ISBN-13: 978-0300181265 ![Dawoud Bey - Harlem, U.S.A](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/dawoud_bey_-_harlem_u.s.a.png?itok=LifFc5N_) [### Glenn Ligon: Come Out. ](/news/glenn-ligon-come-out) February 01, 2015 Glenn Ligon: Come Out. By Glenn Ligon and Megan Ratner Ridinghouse (February 1, 2015) ISBN-10: 1905464991 ISBN-13: 978-1905464999 ![Glenn Ligon: Come Out.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/glenn_ligon-_come_out.png?itok=QQTwKFS_) [### Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century ](/news/harlem-crossroads-black-writers-and-photograph-twentieth-century%C2%A0-sara-blair%C2%A0) September 16, 2007 Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century By Sara Blair Princeton University Press; 1st edition (September 16, 2007) ISBN-10: 0691130876 ISBN-13: 978-0691130873 ![Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/harlem_crossroads-_black_writers_and_the_photograph_in_the_twentieth_century.png?itok=Mo8M6AGf) [### Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America ](/news/harlem-nowhere-journey-mecca-black-america%C2%A0-sharifa-rhodes-pitts) January 22, 2013 Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (January 22, 2013) ISBN-10: 0316017248 ISBN-13: 978-0316017244 ![Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/harlem_is_nowhere-_a_journey_to_the_mecca_of_black_america.png?itok=Yyd_XUN3) [### Harlem: Found Ways ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674980969) August 06, 2019 Published 2019 The art and artists of Harlem: Found Ways represent the place and its people, burnishing Harlem’s luster but never attempting to smooth its rough edges. The works in the exhibition span a variety of media to explore the invention of Harlem... ![9780674980969.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/9780674980969.jpeg?itok=R_127PJi) [### Harlem: Lost and Found ](/news/harlem-lost-and-found) December 03, 2001 Harlem: Lost and Found By Michael Henry Adams The Monacelli Press; 1st Edition edition (December 3, 2001) ISBN-10: 1580930700 ISBN-13: 978-1580930703 ![Harlem: Lost and Found](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/harlem-_lost_and_found.png?itok=YOwI8A5-) [### The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America ](/news/color-law-forgotten-history-how-our-government-segregated-america-richard) May 02, 2017 The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein Liveright; 1 edition (May 2, 2017) ISBN-10: 1631492853 ISBN-13: 978-1631492853 ![The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/the_color_of_law-_a_forgotten_history_of_how_our_government_segregated_america.png?itok=EHxiuBAX) [### The Harlem Charade ](/news/harlem-charade-natasha-tarpley) January 31, 2017 The Harlem Charade By Natasha Tarpley Scholastic Press (January 31, 2017) ISBN-10: 0545783879 ISBN-13: 978-0545783873 ![The Harlem Charade](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/the_harlem_charade.png?itok=SBe5mmmb) [### The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem By Brian D. Goldstein ](/news/roots-urban-renaissance-gentrification-and-struggle-over-harlem-brian-d-goldstein) February 01, 2017 The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem By Brian D. Goldstein Harvard University Press (February 1, 2017) ISBN-10: 0674971507 ISBN-13: 978-0674971509 ![The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/the_roots_of_urban_renaissance-_gentrification_and_the_struggle_over_harlem.png?itok=VLsjwpkY)