2023 Underground Art Market Report
WRITERS’ DEVELOPMENT The U.K.’s National Film and Television School (NFTS) has partnered with “The Crown” producer Left Bank Pictures on the NFTS Diverse Writers Development Program that kicks off in March 2024. It will select six emerging U.K. screenwriters from under-represented backgrounds to contribute their voices …
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Waterlooplein Flea Market The Waterlooplein Flea Market is a fascinating experience in itself. Even if you don’t buy anything, you will enjoy exploring the stalls filled with vintage items, retro clothing, and more, letting yourself be transported to a different era, imagining this city in …
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Monster Support Group: The Mummy’s Curse from the Flying Eye Books imprint of Nobrow tops this week’s list of new comics, manga, and graphic novels for readers 12-and-under, along with a new manga from Seven Sea Entertainment. Other highlights include Saving H’Non: Chang and the …
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Across five decades, the cartoonist Daniel Clowes has written about a wide array of outcasts: the high-school best friends wrestling with their transition into adulthood; the middle-aged grouch searching for the daughter he never knew; the sex-obsessed malcontent fixated on his ex-girlfriend; the many other …
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Art to celebrate the courage of human rights defendersIn the 12th arrondissement of Paris, a wall is now dedicated to the defense of human rights. The fresco, created by Marseille street artist Mahn Kloix, celebrates through six portraits the courage of human rights defenders who …
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Fifteen years ago, we were living in the Great Recession. It’s not that long ago. I was born in 1960, 15 years after the ovens had been turned off in Auschwitz. And grew up, Jewish in America, trying to make sense of the organized industrial …
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A T 5:44 P.M. ON FEB. 23, 2022, my phone lit up with a WhatsApp message from a stranger. “Hello Sean Williams,” he wrote. “I have something for you.” Seconds later, the stranger sent a link to a Spectrum 1 News interview with a retired …
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Nadya Tolokonnikova, an artist and activist, was placed on Russia’s most wanted list in March. Weeks earlier, she had released an irreverent short film entitled Putin’s Ashes, in which a group of women from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, dressed in lingerie and wearing red balaclavas, …
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Manchester City and Power of Women launches the sixth annual “Same City, Same Passion” collection of digital artwork for the upcoming International Women’s Day to celebrate the start of the Women’s Super League Season 2023-24. This collaboration also draws inspiration from Manchester City’s Same City, …
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Assassin’s Creed has established itself as one of the biggest franchises in video games, and if you can’t get enough of the historical saga, then this new Humble book bundle should be right up your alley. Just in time for this week’s release of Assassin’s …
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