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Rose Prentice, formerly enslaved, was in her mid-sixties when Sarah Goodridge, a noted miniaturist, painted her portrait. Born in 1771, Prentice retained the surname of her second enslaver, John Prentice, who likely manumitted her, before or upon his death, in 1808. Decades after securing her freedom, Prentice moved to Boston’s Beacon Hill, where she performed […]
Receive free Collecting updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Collecting news every morning. Just days after the opening of the major Frans Hals exhibition at the National Gallery in London, a portrait by the 17th-century Dutch master will be unveiled at Frieze Masters. Unlike those hanging in Trafalgar […]
SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press 2 days ago Items are displayed during a preview of the exhibition “The Missing Thread: Untold Stories of Black British Fashion”, at Somerset House, in London, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. A new exhibition is opening in London to chart for the first time the contributions Black British culture made to U.K. […]
A new exhibition is opening in London to chart for the first time the contributions Black British culture made to U.K. fashion and design history and to celebrate Black designers who haven’t received public recognition By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press September 20, 2023, 11:18 AM ET • 3 min read LONDON — A new exhibition […]
Emerging researchers uncovering hidden connections The exhibition has been curated by a team of University of Manchester postgraduate students, academics and curators, with the support of external researchers. Core to the exhibition is research conducted by a diverse team of emerging scholars who undertook the Race, Migration & Humanitarianism: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in the […]
Children activating the installation America’s Playground: DC by artist Derrick Adams in Constitution Gardens on the National Mall. A.J. Mitchell/Monument Lab hide caption toggle caption A.J. Mitchell/Monument Lab Children activating the installation America’s Playground: DC by artist Derrick Adams in Constitution Gardens on the National Mall. A.J. Mitchell/Monument Lab Kids are running all over a […]
Comment on this storyComment If you could see it with fresh eyes — and think about what it used to be, what it could be and what it would be if it was in any other country — the National Mall would seem a very strange, almost surreal place. It isn’t fringed with restaurants, it […]
A new permanent exhibition has now opened at Judges’ Lodgings Museum in Lancaster after a major refurbishment supported by the Art Fund and the Regional Furniture Society. Gillows of Lancaster – A Global Story casts a new light on the work of Gillows who were one of the most important regional furniture makers in […]
A Dutch museum has provoked social media anger that has spread as far as Egypt with an exhibition on how ancient Egyptian culture has been seen through the eyes of artists with African roots. The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Netherlands, opened the show Kemet: Egypt in hip . . .
Toni Morrison remains the sole Black female recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature. An exhibition at Princeton University, where Morrison was a professor, commemorates the 30th anniversary of her win. Morrison is pictured above in Paris in November 2010. Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images Toni […]