Pope Francis to attend installation that includes short film featuring Zoë Saldaña and Giudecca inmatesOriginally a convent dating to the 13th century, and once a reformatory for prostitutes, the Giudecca women’s prison, set on an island in the Venetian lagoon, will this summer perform a quite different role: as the official pavilion for the Vatican at this year’s Venice Biennale.Pope Francis is due to attend on 28 April – the first pontifical visit to the Biennale since it was founded in 1895....
The 2024 luncheon celebrates 33 years of fighting for justice and aligns with NAN's dedication to amplify the voices of Black women.
MARSHALL COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) -- The Marshall County Chamber of Commerce held its annual Ladies Luncheon at Grand Vue Park on Thursday. The theme, women wear many hats, is an acknowledgment of the different contributions women give to the community, as well as an invitation for guests to wear their best hats. Ashely Wear, Marshall []
By Je’Don Holloway-Talley | For The Birmingham Times Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Raheem DeVaughn was in Birmingham last week to not only perform at the Alabama Theatre but also to give back. One day after performing on Wednesday, DeVaughn’s LoveLife Foundation presented the Let’s Talk Women’s Empowerment Luncheon. which assembled elected officials, artists, advocates, community leaders, and […]
Art dealers said the business can be risky and buying art can be motivated by emotions.
ST. GEORGE — Members of the Utah Legislature’s “Sunshine Caucus” attended a forum Thursday where they were asked to recap the big issues and successes had in thus year’s recent legislative session. The civic leaders were also asked about bills that did not survive the Legislature that they wished had passed. The forum was a […]
Orlando Whitfield was a student when he became best friends with Inigo Philbrick, ‘the art world’s Bernie Madoff’. He talks about how their decade of hustling would lead one to a breakdown – and the other to jail• ‘The day we tried to bag a Banksy’: read an extract from Whitfield’s explosive exposéOrlando Whitfield is a youngish man, shy, with a reddish beard. His hands are aggressively tattooed, as if they’d been laid, backs down, on wet newspaper. The ink is a form of armour, he says, like his...
Alicia Keys opted for a double denim look for an event in New York City on Thursday. The 43-year-old songstress wore a matching jean jacket and jeans with tiny blue stone accents.
A man was arrested after he allegedly stripped naked in the women's locker room at a Planet Fitness gym in North Carolina and refused to leave even though a child was likely present.Last Thursday, Christopher Allan Miller, a 38-year-old man sporting a beard, reportedly created quite a disturbance at a Planet Fitness in Gastonia, North Carolina, a city of 80,000 residents about a half-hour west of Charlotte. A woman inside the women's locker room there called 911 to report that Miller was...
The Spice Girl has given fans never seen before glimpse inside her Miami penthouse as she shared a candid snap relaxing on the sofa.
Her son, 23, displayed Pack A Punch, a collection of paintings inspired by Muay Thai fighters, at a space in Miami's Design District.
While the real world was still bombing itself to oblivion last week, I found myself reading up on the exploits of a freshly released British-born American art dealer called Indigo Philbrick, who has just spent time in a low-security federal prison in Philadelphia. This was for the largest art fraud ever committed in US history. More