Gems

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Crystal Williams, an award-winning poet who currently leads Boston University’s diversity and inclusion efforts, has been named the next president of the Rhode Island School of Design, the school’s board of trustees announced Thursday. Williams was selected from more than 100 candidates and will become the school’s 18th president effective April 1, […]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, examines southern aesthetic and musical traditions of early 20th-century Black culture, influences now common throughout the American South and contemporary American art and culture. It will open at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American […]

Bentonville, Ark. – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces the debut of Crystal Bridges at 10, which will be on view July 11 to September 27. Crystal Bridges at 10 is an immersive exhibition with 10 distinct art experiences celebrating the collection and the community one decade into the museum’s lifetime. Primarily drawing from the […]