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Apr 6, 2019 · Maccarone. March 16 – May 25, 2019. Fred Wilson, a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant recipient in 1999, is well known for his installations that reframe and recontextualize art historical objects and cultural symbols relating to blackness. Mining the Museum, an exhibition at the Maryland Historical Society in 1992 was the first major ...
May 3, 2017 · The influence of Fred Wilson’s seminal 1992 intervention at the Maryland Historical Society (now, the Maryland Center for History and Culture) is at once easily summarized and remarkably complex. Working with objects in the collection of the MHS, Wilson unsettled the museum’s comfortably white, upper-class narrative by juxtaposing silver repoussé vessels and elegant 19th-century armchairs with slave shackles and a whipping post.
Apr 30, 2021 · Before his bet on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. became a multi-billion-dollar exit, Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson compared Bitcoin to science fiction. “We may be ...
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The genesis of Fred Wilson: Afro Kismet stretches back to 1992 when Wilson presented Re:Claiming Egypt, at the 4th International Cairo Biennale and to 2003 when Wilson represented the United States at the 50th Venice Biennale with Speak of Me as I Am. Even before being invited by Elmgreen & Dragset to participate in the 15th Istanbul Biennial in 2017, Wilson’s interest in the city had already piqued; he conceived of the city as the third leg in a historically and culturally connected ...
Dec 9, 2019 · Fred Wilson is cofounder and partner at Union Square Ventures, a legendary startup investment firm. He was an early investor in platforms such as Twitter, Tumblr, Zynga, and Etsy.
Jan 21, 2021 · At the helm of Union Square Ventures, the venture capital firm he started in 2003, Fred Wilson has backed some of the most successful internet startups through the years — with at least one billion-dollar exit in his firm’s portfolio every year between 2011 and 2015. Among those wins were Twitter ($14.2B return), Indeed ($1.4B), and Etsy ...
Sep 28, 2017 · If you want to be a venture capitalist, get out your pom-poms. “A VCs most important role is that of a cheerleader,” says Fred Wilson, co-founder and managing partner of Union Square Ventures ...
