Mar 18, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery
Wandering around the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Gallery on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia at a contemplative pace is a bit of an unusual art patron. Gordon is short, skinny, and black. Oh, and it’s a robot. “It is a stand in for a...
Jan 15, 2021 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
While the Metropolitan Museum of Art was able to reopen after several months of prudent closure during the spring and summer of 2020, they’ve done so with reduced capacity, limited hours, and reservation requirements that mean that not everyone who wishes to...
Oct 9, 2020 | Culture, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending, Organizations
It’s common for modern historical pieces – films, novels, etc – to include black figures in ways that previous iterations of the genre never did. For instance, the BBC series Merlin included a black Guinevere, played by Angel Coulby. Netflix’s 2020 series...
Aug 19, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery
In the early 1820s, English King George IV commissioned the architect John Nash to make some renovations to Buckingham Palace – most notably, to build the picture gallery, a home for George’s collection of fine paintings. Now, two centuries later, the gallery is...
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...
Jul 7, 2020 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending, Organizations
The German submarine base in Bordeaux, France, was built in 1941 under the orders of Admiral Donitz, to establish a protective base from which Nazi submarines could patrol the Atlantic. After its completion in 1942, it housed a significant fleet, including 42 u-boats....
