2023 Underground Art Market Report
When artist Alexandre Arrechea was 9, his father, Jesús, took him to the sugar mill where he worked as a machinist. The Arrecheas are from Trinidad, a graceful Spanish colonial city on the southern coast of Cuba that emerged as an important center of the …
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Caledonia — Fifth-grader Elise Werner and her friends from Dutton Elementary put on their own plastic hard hats, grabbed shovels and helped their teachers and principal break ground on the future site of the new Dutton Elementary. “We’re going to have brand-new classrooms,” Elise said. …
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Sitting at a metal cafeteria table with her brother and parents, a girl paints a beach scene onto a small canvas. She decides the sun should be pink, like the ribbons in her hair. The tables behind her are covered in toys and art supplies. …
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In August 2023, students began a transformative journey within the confines of Centinela State Prison in California. San Diego State University embarked on a mission to empower incarcerated individuals through the launch of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. This cross-unit collaboration is …
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Carolyn Lazard ’10. Video still, courtesy of MacArthur Foundation. Bard alum Carolyn Lazard ’10 has been named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Lazard, an interdisciplinary artist who uses the experience of chronic illness to examine concepts of intimacy and social and political dimensions of care, is …
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(Courtesy of The Old Joliet Haunted Prison) Find your own darn pumpkin patches and corn mazes. This is a list for adults who love the spooky season just as much as those costumed kids with their candy bags. Thanks to our sponsors: There’s some family …
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When Leanne Trapedo Sims was in the process of being getting hired as an assistant professor at Knox College in Galesburg, she saw the institution’s closeness to the Henry Hill Correctional Center as an opportunity. “Literally, it’s five minutes away,” said Trapedo Sims, who co-chairs …
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Tupac Shakur‘s former artist and Outlawz rapper Napoleon agrees with the narrative Duane Keith “Keefe D” Davis is only behind bars, and charged with Pac’s murder, because he wouldn’t stop running his mouth. On Tuesday, Napoleon spoke to The Art Of Dialogue — one of …
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Louisiana’s pardon board will consider at most five clemency applications from death row prisoners under a settlement deal that strikes a potentially fatal blow to a historic effort to empty the state’s death row. A Baton Rouge judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought …
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