, will open at the MMA in April 2022 and at the BMA in October 2022.
The historic phenomenon known as the Great Migration saw more than six million African Americans leave the South for cities across the United States at the start of the 20th century and well into the 1970s. This incredible movement of people transformed nearly every aspect of Black life, in both rural towns and urban metropolises. The impact of the Great Migration spurred a flourishing Black culture and also established a new cadre of artists, writers, musicians, and makers. With this project, the co-organizing institutions bring together a group of intergenerational artists with ancestral ties to the South to research and reflect on their personal histories and migration narratives through the lens of their contemporary practices.
Thomas Cole,
Arch of Nero (1846). The painting, owned by the Newark Museum of Art, will hit the auction block at Sotheby s.
When the Newark Museum of Art announced a plan to sell 17 objects in March, it provided few details as to which artworks might appear on the auction block. But a gradual release of the specifics has enraged some historians, including previous employees of the museum, who described the sale as a misguided attempt to monetize some of the collection’s best examples of American art, including a painting by the landscape artist Thomas Cole.
On Friday, opponents of the auction released a letter addressed to the museum’s director, Linda Harrison, demanding that she “cancel the self-diminishment and monetization of Newark’s art” because it was “inflicting irreparable damage” on the institution.
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Podcast: Liz Cheney And The GOP’s Trump Litmus Test
Senior Editor Christopher Bedford joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinksy to talk this week in politics including the potential ousting of Rep. Liz Cheney, and how it raises the question: To what is extent is loyalty to Donald Trump a litmus test Republican leaders and Republican voters?
“On the one hand, you have a good chunk of the Republican base that is more loyal to Trump than they are to the Republican party,” Jashinsky said. “At the same time there is the contingency of suburban voters that are – Trump isn’t why they vote Republican.”
Ron Johnson to the Washington Post
Bedford includes the full text of Johnson’s statement to the Post. I am including Senator Johnson’s statement below the break.
Because of my position as chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, I have always been aware of Russian disinformation and the need to be careful believing and using any information coming from sources from that region. In fact, during all my investigations we have viewed every piece of information and evidence with skepticism and rigorously worked to verify everything. Our report on Hunter Biden proves the meticulousness of our methods. That is why we asked for and received a briefing on Andrii Telizhenko, and received assurances from the FBI that there was no reason that the Committees should not continue their investigation (see report page 59). We made that clear in the report last September.