Theaster Gates Bought America’s Last China Factory

Theaster Gates Bought America’s Last China Factory

Good Morning, Theaster Gates, the artist whose installations sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, has bought Pickard China, the last U.S. maker of high-end porcelain: a 12-person factory in Antioch, Illinois, producing a quarter of what it did in the 1970s (NPR). Meanwhile a historian in Edinburgh has found that Till the Bells Ring, a 46-minute talkie written in Scots, premiered in October 1926, a year before The Jazz Singer, widely though…