Ta-Nehisi Coates—author of Marvel Comic’s Black Panther series, National Book Award winner, and national correspondent for The Atlantic—talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford on alternative futures unapologetically rooted in black culture and technology. This is the second event in the BMA’s conversation series, The Necessity of Tomorrow(s). The evening features free entry to the ticketed […]
This Labor Day weekend, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting the 21st annual Charity Boat Auction on Saturday, September 1. More than 100 donated boats and watercraft—ranging in size and performance from luxury boats to dinghies—will be in the water and on land to be auctioned off to the highest bidders. ”Because this is […]
PHILADELPHIA — A new exhibit making its debut this month at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University features the mind-boggling behaviors and extreme characteristics of some of the earth’s most fascinating creatures—in the extreme. Xtreme Bugs, opening Saturday, May 26, features nearly 20 giants, moving, hissing, clicking insects from around the world. Picture […]
Florence, Italy – The basilica of San Miniato al Monte, a Romanesque masterpiece established a thousand years ago as a basilica by Bishop Ildebrando, celebrates its millennial anniversary with the meticulous restoration of its Chapel of the Crucifix. The project was funded by the Friends of Florence, a nonprofit devoted to cultural heritage preservation in […]
As part of the festivities during the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Community Day on Sunday, May 20, student participants in CBMM’s Rising Tide Program will launch two newly built Smith Island outboard skiffs. Rising Tide offers free boatbuilding classes, workshops, camps, and events throughout the year for students in grades six to nine. Students in […]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) is inviting people to reconnect with their favorite exhibits and fall in love with the Duke Energy Children’s Museum all over again when it reopens May 4. After a temporary six-month closure to accommodate construction activity in adjacent spaces, the Duke Energy Children’s Museum is primed and ready for […]
Providence, RI – Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) at Brown University is hosting internationally renowned Nigerian multimedia artist Jelili Atiku, Brown’s first Artist Protection Fund Fellow. Atiku is serving as an assistant professor in the University’s Department of Africana Studies and a BAI artist-in-residence through 2018. Established by the New York-based Institute of International Education (IIE) […]
