Museums
At a time when the truth of Black history is being challenged, it’s more important than ever to support the institutions that preserve, protect, and elevate our stories. Across the United States, Black-led museums are doing vital work—documenting the past, shaping the present, and inspiring the future. Whether you’re planning a cultural trip or seeking […]
Can masterpieces of European art help smooth over the fissures between the old world and the new? It’s a hope, say officials at the Frick Collection in New York, which reopens next month after a five-year, $220m (£170m) renovation. Axel Rüger, the director of the museum, which began with a trove of European masterpieces including […]
Trump’s new executive order targets what he describes as the spread of a “divisive, race-centered ideology” at museums. United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to remove what he describes as “corrosive” anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex. In one of his latest executive orders signed on Thursday, titled […]
New Alabama sculpture park, Black history museums are changing the way history is told USA TODAY Source link
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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