My father-in-law, Barry Bingham Jr., was a visual person. One of his first jobs was making documentaries at CBS; he always had a camera with him, made and edited videos for us, and printed large-scale photographs until his last year; and when he moved back to Louisville in the 1960s he considered himself lucky to […]
Since I left the Speed Art Museum a year ago I’ve been working to document “Promise, Witness, Remembrance” – the exhibition built around Amy Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor. That work is now a Speed-published book, co-authored with Curator Allison Glenn and Community Engagemnt Strategist Toya Northington and with contributions from many. What made this exhibition was the people
The following was published as an opinion piece in Louisville Business First on June 22, 2022. Kentucky has celebrated some great employment news over the last six months. The biggest, of course, is Ford Motor Co.’s and SK Innovation’s announced battery plant project in Glendale, which will employ at least 5,000 people. Other good news
Artists are the most generous people I know, and I can’t think of a more creative philanthropist today than the amazing Amy Sherald. When the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates invited Amy to paint a portrait of Breonna Taylor in the summer of 2020 for the cover of Vanity Fair magazine, she reached out to Breonna’s mother,
I think I saw a movement start this weekend. The New Kentucky Project hosted its first Ideas Conference yesterday in Lexington. I’m honored to serve on the Project’s Executive Board, but even insiders had no better expectation than most other attenders what the event would deliver. We certainly didn’t expect that a sellout crowd of
Almost all American cities are asking how they can eat more food that has been grown by farmers who live nearby. We all want the resulting benefits, from greater food security and an elevated tax base to healthier soil, water and people. But no American city has yet answered that question, at least not on
