Tag: Black
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Former MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Says Leon Black Is a ‘Solid Trustee’ Amid Epstein Controversy
While collector Leon Black continues to face controversy over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he has found a defender in Glenn Lowry, a former director of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York institution where Black is currently a board member. Black was previously chair of MoMA’s board, but he left read more
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Ukrainian-Estonian Defencetech Black Forest Systems raises $400K to scale infantry drone platform
Kyiv-based company Black Forest Systemshas received $400,000 in investment from Front Ventures and Hede Capital Partners AB. Founded in 2024, Black Forest Systems develops vertically integrated unmanned systems and tactical drone platforms for infantry and Special Operations Forces operating in forward positions. Their solutions combine proprietary electronics, secure communications, and control software into vertically integrated read more
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Birmingham Museum Seeks Public Help to Find Historic Artwork
TheBirmingham Museum of Artis asking the public for help locating artworks byCorietta Mitchell, the first Black artist to have a solo exhibition at the museum during the city’s segregation era, according to local news outletWVTM. The institution marks its 75th anniversary this year with a renewed effort to recover what it calls a missing piece read more
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David Driskell’s Gifts to Black Art
Features The artist and scholar spent decades championing Black artists through collecting, creating, and providing financial support through the Driskell Prize. David C. Driskell,”Pine and Moon“(1971), oil on Masonite; Portland Museum of Art, Maine (© Estate of David C. Driskell, courtesy DC Moore Gallery, New York. Image courtesy Pillar Digital Imaging) PORTLAND, Maine — David read more
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Epstein Files Reveal Links Between Leon Black and Possibly Looted Antiquities
A one-page document contained in the Department of Justice’s release of files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connects billionaire art collector Leon Black with potentially looted Cambodian art and artifacts, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. Formerly CEO of Apollo Global Management, Black is known to have paid Epstein for financial advice after his criminal read more
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Artist Tai Shani Pulls Phaidon Book Deal Over Leon Black Allegations
Artist Tai Shani in 2019 (photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Stuart Wilson/Getty Images for Turner Contemporary) British artist and Turner Prize winner Tai Shani said she has withdrawn a forthcoming monograph with Phaidon, the fine art book publisher owned by Leon Black, in the wake of graphic sexual assault accusations against the private equity billionaire detailed read more
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Black & White, Ceramic, And Totally Personal: The sculptures of Katherine Morling – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Other artworks, though undoubtedly originating in autobiography, point toward more universal themes. Undercurrent, for example, depicts two rotary telephones arranged so that each acts as the base of the other. One of the telephones appears normal, ready to use, while the other has keys exploding out of the dial and letters, similarly, blasting upward from read more
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All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil? It is an enduring question — and one I rarely hear asked of the medieval world. Looking to the Middle Ages for answers to the perennial puzzles of life can seem quaint, even artificial, a long reach across centuries marked by violence, hierarchy, and read more
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Epstein Files Detail Gruesome Allegations Against Leon Black
Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. The latest tranche of Epstein files released by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) last week includes detailed and gruesome descriptions of alleged abuse by private equity billionaire and read more
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John Wilson’s Relentlessly Humane Vision of Black Life
I was on my way to one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s blockbuster exhibitions when something unexpected stopped me: John Wilson’s “Self-Portrait” (2002). This haunting, abraded pastel and paint work is part of the revelatory exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson. A longtime resident of Boston, a city that never developed an read more
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Black Forest Labs secures $300M Series B at $3.25B valuation
Today Black Forest Labs has announced a $300 million Series B round at a $3.25 billion post-money valuation. Black Forest Labs was founded last year with a mission to build frontier models for pixels—systems capable of creating what cameras cannot capture. The team set out to develop models that understand intent rather than simply execute read more
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