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Scholar on diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion and committed advocate for social justice celebrated for achievements in her scholarly career.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) May 11, 2021 The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), a leading supporter of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, is pleased to welcome anthropologist, distinguished educator, and museum professional Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, who will deliver the Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture, A Life of Learning, which celebrates scholarly careers of distinctive importance. This event will be presented on Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 3:00 PM ET.
Dr. Cole currently serves as the National Chair and Seventh President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), an advocacy organization with more than two million members, working in the interest of women s rights and civil rights.
The Colosseum in Rome. Photo by Thierry Monasse/picture alliance via Getty Images.
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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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The Newark Museum is putting Thomas Cole s The Arch of Nero (1846) on the auction block at Sotheby s, carrying an estimate of $500,000-$700,000
An open letter signed by more than 50 art historians, curators and researchers was submitted today to the Newark Museum of Art protesting its plan to sell works from its collection, most prominently Thomas Cole’s 1846 painting
The Arch of Nero, organisers say.
The letter, addressed to Linda Harrison, director and chief executive of the museum, denounces the sales, known as deaccessioning, as a “senseless monetisation” of the art. Among the works being offered by the institution are examples by Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Burgoyne Diller, Thomas Eakins, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Thomas Moran, Georgia O Keeffe, Frederic Remington and Charles Sheeler.