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American artist Kerry James Marshall has donated a portrait of his friend, the literary critic, writer and Emmy-winning filmmaker Henry ‘Skip’ Louis Gates Jr to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK ...
A museum that was founded on profits from the transatlantic slave trade is reflecting on its history in a new exhibition. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge used the bequest of a man whose ...
The Fitzwilliam’s “Masterpieces 2020 Edition” greeting card line is just one way the museum hopes to recoup income lost during its extended closure. Shakespeare’s Globe, Jane Austen’s ...
Black Atlantic, Fitzwilliam Museum review — a watershed show on Cambridge’s ties to slavery on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save Maya Jaggi. Published September 16 2023.
A museum will return a 19th Century painting stolen by the Nazis to the descendants of the original Jewish owner. The oil landscape by French realist Gustave Courbet was seized from Robert Bing in ...
Fitzwilliam Museum: what’s wrong with the chronology of art? This thematic rehang is choppy and underwhelming Well done the Cambridge museum for avoiding harrumphing and for keeping its ...
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge used the bequest of a man whose grandfather set up the South Sea Company. Black Atlantic: Power, People, ...