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....
Jun 17, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
While Art Basel, the international fine arts fair founded in 1970 by Ernst Beyeler, Trudl Bruckner, and Balz Hilt has three major events a year, spaced around the globe, it is its eponymous event, Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, that is the gem of the set. At Basel...
Jun 3, 2020 | Art, Gallery, Museums, News & Trending
Ordinarily, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy is a sea of art-lovers and tourists, bodies packed wall to wall as everyone vies to get a view of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” that doesn’t include a dozen selfie-sticks. The art museum, which is housed in...
