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“She Will Be Quite a Manager”: From Plantation Owner to Girl Boss
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWhat do a Civil War-era plantation owner and a modern “girl boss” have in common? More than you think. Adelicia Acklen and Dorothy Thomas were two of the most powerful plantation-owning women—one…
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Porcelains and Power: The Politics of Chinese Art in the Age of American Ascendancy
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesA talk by Dr. Ian Shin (Department of American Culture, University of Michigan), co-sponsored with the Department of History. How can we understand the relationship between art collecting and Western…
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Collecting African, Ancient Mediterranean, and Native American Art
Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAckland Director Shalini Le Gall moderates a discussion with specialists in African, Ancient Mediterranean, and Native American art: Dr. Victoria Rovine of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Art and Art History,…