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Smithsonian and the Speed Art Museum to Jointly Acquire Amy Sherald’s Painting of Breonna Taylor
WASHINGTON, D.C. AND LOUISVILLE, Kentucky
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Cover of Vanity Fair‘s September 2020 issue, featuring a portrait of Breonna Taylor by Amy Sherald.
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Facilitated by the artist, the museums acquistion follows a $1 million joint donation from the Ford Foundation and the Hearthland Foundation, a nonprofit tied to actress Kate Capshaw and her husband, the director Steven Spielberg. Proceeds will benefit social justice reform initiatives. (NYT)
The Smithsonian s National Museum of African American History and Culture is in talks with the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, to jointly acquire a painting of Breonna Taylor by Amy Sherald that first appeared on the cover of the September 2020 issue of  ....

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