Works by Nydia Blas and Devin Troy Strother join the permanent collection of the California African American Museum
Devin Troy Strother, Guuuuurl you know i love me some yves kleins to, 2013. Acrylic and auto-body paint on aluminum.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Over the Influence announced the acceptance of works by Nydia Blas and Devin Troy Strother into the permanent collection of the California African American Museum (CAAM). Each individual will have two artworks join the museums collection- Blas photographs Way Up and Whatever You Like, both from 2017, and Strothers sculptures downward thoughts of colour, 2020 and guuuuurl you know i love me some yves kleins to, 2013.
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Eli Broad and wife Edythe Broad in 2009.
Eli Broad, Los Angeles Philanthropist With Art Trove, Dies at 87 Broad built a fortune of more than $7 billion from two companies, Kaufman & Broad, the first homebuilder to trade on the New York Stock Exchange, and SunAmerica, one of the largest U.S. annuity providers.
Christopher Palmeri | May 03, 2021
(Bloomberg) Eli Broad, the billionaire businessman who founded two Fortune 500 companies in different industries before becoming one of America’s most prominent philanthropists and art collectors, has died. He was 87.
Broad died Friday afternoon at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a long illness, said Suzi Emmerling, a spokeswoman for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
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At least six sculptures, potentially as many as 19, stolen during an 1897 massacre by British colonists in Africa have been sitting quietly in two Los Angeles art museum collections for the past half-century.
That status is likely to change. Pressure has been building for longer than a decade for the return of thousands of objects looted from the Royal Palace in Benin City, located in what is southern Nigeria. Repatriation of Benin art is as essential as restitution for art looted during the Holocaust, which this theft resembles.
Britain’s invading imperial forces were after natural resources, especially the rubber and palm oil necessary for industrial expansion, when they targeted the palace. Mass murder at the seat of the Edo peoples’ nonindustrial African kingdom, together with the city’s virtual erasure, confiscation of its sacred relics and their triumphal display in Europe’s museums, carried with it a symbolic assertion of the superiority of Queen Victoria’s