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MoMA Appoints Marie-Josée Kravis Chairperson To Replace Tarnished Leon Black The Museum of Modern Art has replaced their Chairman Leon Black, a private equity investor and owner of Phaidon Press, with Marie-Josée Kravis, a highly regarded Canadian philanthropist and collector. The museum felt the long-running saga was too much of a distraction for the institution, which hopes to get back to business after the COVID hiatus. Black is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of private equity firm Apollo Global Management. He stepped down as CEO and chairman in 2021 after revelations that h...

Last modified on Fri 16 Apr 2021 09.44 EDT In the summer of 2020, anti-racism marchers arrived on the steps of the Turner Contemporary in Margate while it was hosting the exhibition We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South. The march’s organisers were the artists and founders of People Dem Collective, Kelly Abbott and Victoria Barrow Williams, who were disappointed at the exhibition’s American focus because, as they put it: “So much was lost. We’re not from Alabama, we’re from Thanet [in Kent] … and our lived experience is about being erased.�...

The Quietus , February 27th, 2021 09:13 Patrick Wright, author of the new book, The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness, talks to Simon Matthews about the "moral utopia" in the Thames Estuary Brent geese over Shellness and nudist beach. All pictures courtesy Patrick Wright We live in interesting times. Who would have thought that the odyssey of legendary East Germany writer Uwe Johnson, from the Baltic to Sheerness forty-five years ago, would have resonance today in a political and social landscape scarred by Brexit? A legendary figure in European literature, Johnson chose to sett...

Interview by Adam Van Brimmer African American professionals are underrepresented in science fields, and schools, educators and STEM-related organizations across the country are collaborating to address the shortage. Karla-Sue Marriott, a biomedical researcher at Savanah State University and the founder of the school's forensics science program, is our latest Difference Maker. Find the latest and archived episodes of Difference Makers at SavannahNow.com/podcasts or search "Savannah Difference Makers" on podcast app. Past Difference Makers include the Ossabaw Island Foundation's Elizabeth DuBo...

Jennifer Bonnett For Savannah Morning News Yes, we are still in a pandemic and an economic crisis. Yes, we are experiencing a tremendous amount of social unrest. And yes, it is the perfect time to launch a new business, especially a pandemic resistant tech or tech enabled business. Many very successful businesses have started during trying economic times. Microsoft was founded during the oil embargo recession (1973 to 1975). Mailchimp was launched in 2001, the middle of the dot com crash. Uber and AirBNB were both founded during the Great Recession (2007-2009). The pandemic has ushered in a w...