Finding Common Ground and Love in Harlem
April Hunt and June Berry come from different worlds. Ms. Hunt is an art-world fixture and D.J., and Ms. Berry is a child welfare consultant and chef. The two bonded over their mutual love for music and food.
April Hunt, left, and June Berry married Feb. 12 under a special tree on Randalls Island in New York.Credit.Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times
By Tammy La Gorce
March 12, 2021
When telling the story of their relationship, April Hunt and June Berry sometimes leave out a detail the listener is bound to find significant. “We forgot to tell you that a portrait of us was hanging in the National Gallery in Washington,” Ms. Hunt said the day before her Feb. 12 wedding to Ms. Berry.
Smithsonian and the Speed Art Museum to Jointly Acquire Amy Sheraldâs Painting of Breonna Taylor
WASHINGTON, D.C. AND LOUISVILLE, Kentucky
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Cover of Vanity Fairâs September 2020 issue, featuring a portrait of Breonna Taylor by Amy Sherald.
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Facilitated by the artist, the museums acquistion follows a $1 million joint donation from the Ford Foundation and the Hearthland Foundation, a nonprofit tied to actress Kate Capshaw and her husband, the director Steven Spielberg. Proceeds will benefit social justice reform initiatives. (NYT)
The Smithsonian s National Museum of African American History and Culture is in talksâ¯with the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky,â¯to jointlyâ¯acquire a painting of Breonna Taylor by Amy Sherald that first appeared on the cover of the September 2020 issue ofâ¯
Michelle Obama: Barack and I ‘can’t get a word in’ with Sasha, Malia
The former First Lady shared how she and her husband handle communicating with their young-adult daughters.
Good Morning America with host
Robin Roberts, former First Lady
Michelle Obama opened up about how she and her husband, former President
Barack Obama, have open communications with their two young-adult daughters. Sasha, 19, and
Malia, 22. “If you sit around the dinner table, me and Barack, we can’t get a word in edgewise and we like it like that. We want to hear their thoughts and their opinions. That’s where it begins.”
15 Before and After Photos of U.S. Presidents Serving Their Term
On 3/2/21 at 7:00 AM EST
As holders of one of the planet s most important offices, U.S. presidents are no stranger to photographs both through their years at the White House as well as after they ve served their terms.
The first form of photography was daguerreotype, which was introduced in France back in 1839. The White House Historical Association explains: In its primitive stages the daguerreotype, a silvered plate of copper rendered light-sensitive by exposure to iodine fumes, was photographically too slow for practical portraiture. Within a year of the announced discovery, however, inquisitive minds in all comers of the globe had devised improvements in chemistry and optics, enabling the establishment of photographic portrait galleries. Daguerreotypes were produced in great numbers in France and elsewhere in Europe. It was in America, however, that photography took on the proportions of a major indu
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