Dec 13, 2023 | Art, Donations, News & Trending
An Australian artist, Katherine Boland, is overjoyed after discovering that her artwork, “Fire Flower No 8,” was given to US President Joe Biden by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a recent state visit. Boland’s creation, “Fire Flower No...
Aug 16, 2023 | Art, Donations, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is donating $2 million to the Smithsonian American At Museum, to endow a new fellowship there. Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract impressionist painter who rose to prominence in the 1950s and painted into the early 2000s. From...
May 2, 2022 | Art, Auctions, Donations, News & Trending
The RBG art collection is up for sale, and like she would have wanted, the proceeds will benefit the Washington National Opera. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, affectionately known to many as the Notorious RBG, was a woman of passion. That passion took her to the Supreme...
Dec 13, 2021 | Art, Donations, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
Peter Lynch has donated his art collection to Boston College, a gift of 30 works worth over $20 million together. Lynch is the vice chairman of Fidelity Management and Research co, an investment company, where he was hired in 1966 because he caddied for the...
Apr 30, 2021 | Art, Donations, Museums, News & Trending
Lee Kun-Hee passed away in 2020, as the wealthiest person in South Korea. Third son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul and long-time chairman of the Samsung Group, he made Samsung into one of the forerunners of smartphone manufacture and digital technology. At the time...
Feb 17, 2021 | Art, Culture, Donations, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
According to a 2020 report on the Creative Economy in California, one out of every seven jobs in Los Angeles is in a creative field, be that art, music, studio production, theater, or anything related. Those jobs generate an estimated $203 billion annually in LA...
