Museums
A statue representing the protest by U.S. black athletes at the Mexico City Olympic Games is on display at National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. The month of February is officially designated as Black History Month, honoring African Americans’ contributions to our history and culture. What began as a week […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. ‒ From a wooden bench at the edge of the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, visitors can see the Alabama River where enslaved Africans were transported and sold into a life of forced labor. From the wide windows on the second floor of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, visitors can […]
Courtesy Brooklyn Museum The cultural sea change at arts institutions has been visible in major and minor ways. But the Brooklyn Museum, which has fostered a strong connection to the diverse community in which it is located, will use its 200th anniversary this fall to make a major forward-looking statement about the role of museums […]
MUSEUMS ACROSS THE NATION are surveying more than 150 years of African African American art. Coinciding with Black History Month, the exhibitions engage a spectrum of themes presenting an expansive look at Black artistic production. From Sacramento, Calif., to Cincinnati, Ohio, Charlotte, N.C., and New York City, the exhibitions highlight the work of women artists, […]
Through the 18th and 19th centuries, the predominant opinion in the United States was that Black Americans had no history, says Joy Bivins, director of collections and research services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York. “Black history museums began to exist in the mid-20th century as a response […]
New York prosecutors this week returned two modernist drawings Nazis seized over 80 years ago to relatives of a Jewish cabaret performer killed at Dachau. Fritz Grünbaum, a Viennese singer and comedian who was outspoken against Hitler in his act, is believed to have owned at least 450 works of art before the Nazis annexed […]
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(CNN) — US investigators seized artworks by Austrian painter Egon Schiele from three museums amid claims Nazis stole them from a Jewish collector during World War II. Museums in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Oberlin, Ohio were named in search warrants issued by New York state’s Supreme Court, which said it has “reasonable cause” to believe that the […]
Local museums benefited this summer from the work of talented students. The Summer Internship Program, launched this year by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Career Services, connects nonprofits with students, especially first generation or Black, Indigenous, or persons of color, who have not yet had an internship. Through this program, organizations offer paid experiences to students, who […]