Lectures

The Harlem Renaissance

Hillwood Museum | October 14, 2021

Antagonistic Cooperation: Romare Bearden’s New Paris Blues

Wildenstein Plattner Institute | June 2021

The Harlem Renaissance (in 4 parts)

National Jazz Museum in Harlem | June 8, 2020

Abécédaire: B for Blue

Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination | December 2019

Music, Text, Image: Duke Ellington’s Paris Blues

Columbia University | April 17th, 2019

Art Talk: Robert O’Meally on Romare Bearden.

Pérez Art Museum Miami | April 14, 2016

Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey

Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University | March 12, 2015

Prof. Robert O’Meally discusses Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey

Columbia University | November 15, 2014

Amiri Baraka’s “Blues People” at Fifty

September 2014

Love and Gender: Homer, Bearden, and Eros

Emory University | February 2014

Locke Lectures. Black Art Demanded Action: Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden, Duke Ellington, and the Jazz Shape of Modern Culture.

Hutchins Center for African & African American Research | 2013