An activist group is pressuring the NBA to oust Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores unless his private equity firm divests itself of a prison telephone company.
Amid a growing national referendum on criminal justice reform, Gores stepped down from the board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art two months ago over the deal, and now the Los Angeles billionaire finds himself under fire again.
Worth Rises, a New York nonprofit, made the demands in a letter sent Dec. 10 to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and the league’s board of governors, contending Gores has failed to live up to pledges to lower the rates charged by Securus Technologies.
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Ansel Adams, The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks completed auctioned at Sotheby s New York on December 14. The collection comprised 123 individual lots, 94% of which were successfully sold to buyers both in person at Sotheby s New York and online. A mural-sized print, The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming , sold for a record-high for an Ansel Adams print, closing at $988,000 USD.
Ansel Adams photographed the record-setting print in 1942. The image was commissioned by the Department of the Interior. The mural-sized print of Jackson Hole is one of fewer than 10 thought to exist. David H. Arrington acquired it directly from a descendant of Ansel Adams.
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If you want to make a documentary about a museum, MASS MoCA, the contemporary arts center in North Adams, Mass., is a pretty good bet in terms of subject matter.
The museum occupies a labyrinthine old mill complex that supplied fabrics to the Union Army during the Civil War and was transformed into an electronics plant in the 20th century. When the Sprague Electric Co. abandoned the town in the 1980s, Thomas Krens, then the director of the nearby Williams College Museum of Art, with his colleague Joseph Thompson, plotted to transform the behemoth 26-building site into a contemporary arts center called MASS MoCA.