Tiana’s Joyful Celebration—a nationwide traveling exhibition is coming to a museum near you in 2026. The innovative exhibition will allow visitors to help Tiana with her community parade through a fun-filled series of interactive experiences inspired by Tiana’s Bayou Adventure attraction, which launched at both Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort last year.
(Fast Company) — It’s hard to imagine any inch of New York City that hasn’t been scrutinized, glorified, surveyed, bought, and sold. But only 42 years ago, in 1968, Pratt Institute Professor Jim Hurley discovered three buildings in Brooklyn completely off the grid. He was in a helicopter, preparing for his urban studies course when […]
(DNAinfo) — Northern Manhattan is one step closer to its very own children’s museum and new affordable housing. The Broadway Housing Communities (BHC) announced that it would go forward with a $70 million plan to build a 13-story building on West 155th Street and St. Nicholas Place on the border of Washington Heights and Harlem. The new […]
(New York Times) — For the last decade the Brooklyn Museum has been actively acquiring work by contemporary African-American artists. Now curators there have started to look back in time. This week the museum announced it was embarking on a new collecting initiative focusing on the work of African-American artists from the mid-19th century to 1945, […]
(CBS News) — Bernard Kinsey is a collector – and a storyteller. Get him started and he can’t stop. His converted wine cellar is filled with fine, vintage African Americana, reports CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker. “This stuff is not only valuable, it’s really rare,” Kinsey said. It’s a passion he shares with Shirley, his wife […]
(Gazette) — The organizers of the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center recently took one step closer toward opening their own building with the creation of a Saturday artists’ market on land it owns on Rhode Island Avenue (Route 1) in North Brentwood. The market is being held on the third Saturday of […]
(Crain’s) — The city’s Economic Development Corp. issued on Monday a request for proposal seeking a developer to construct a new home for the National Jazz Museum and ImageNation Sol Cinema on a long-abandoned site in Harlem. The city-owned 10,000-square-foot site was the former home of Mart 125 on 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell […]