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...
Jul 29, 2020 | Donations, Gallery, Museums, News & Trending
Jane Roughton Kearns wasn’t a student at the University of North Carolina, but her husband, Thomas Kearns Jr. graduated from the school in 1958. A legacy student, he played basketball for the school and apparently is still fiercely loyal. They sent three...
Apr 1, 2020 | Art, Donations, Exhibitions
The first object in Robert and Betsy Feinberg’s collection of Japanese art was not a fine silk painting or a hand-carved wood fan; it was a $2 poster print of a screen painting of an early Portuguese ship arriving in Japan in the 16th century. They found it in a...
