Apr 2, 2021 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Resources
The Louvre’s entire collection is one of the largest in the world, with approximately half a million paintings, sculptures, drawings, writings, and artifacts. They span most of recorded history, from a 9000-year-old neolithic clay figure up into the very recent...
Feb 24, 2021 | Art, Museums, New York
The wealth of any museum is almost always hung on its walls. The collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, for instance, is estimated to be worth somewhere between $100 and $400 billion dollars. (A very rough estimate – no museum would ever...
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...
Aug 12, 2020 | Art, Museums, News & Trending, Profiles
The Red Children’s Art Museum, in Detroit’s North End, also known simply as The Red, is a space dedicated to displaying and archiving art by Detroit-area youth, and to teaching a new generation of artists, from free-play art ‘classes’ for...
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...
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...
