2023 Underground Art Market Report
An in-house appraiser noticed something was awry when the canvas on his workbench did not match a catalog entry. A worker at the Deutsches Museum in Munich stole paintings from the collection, replaced them with rough forgeries, then sold the originals at auction, according to …
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“The set-decoration and the art department worked miracles transforming the space.” Photo: Shane Brown/FX Okern, Oklahoma, is technically fictional. But thanks to the input of the series’ Native crew and the community members of its primary filming location, real-life Okmulgee, the Reservation Dogs hometown crackles …
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Join veteran public radio journalist and Keene State instructor Jason Beaubien for a conversation about the art of modern storytelling with senior reporters/producers Lauren Chooljian and Jason Moon of New Hampshire Public Radio’sDocument Team. The event will take place from 6-7 p.m. on Wed., Oct. …
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Art as a passport — Works by North Point students in University of Cartagena art show Inspiration can strike at any time. For Yaritza Morris’s Spanish II students at North Point High School, it often does when they are studying Black history of Cartagena, a …
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In Claudette Johnson’s large drawings of Black women and men, faces and bodies hold you, frozen in poses that seem more significant than words can say, as if each spontaneous expression or gesture were at the same time a studied symbolic act. Reclining Figure, which …
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As the sun rose on June 10, 2009, the small city of Blanding, Utah, looked more like a scene from an action movie than real life. Over 100 armed FBI agents descended on eight homes to arrest the 23 people they considered key players …
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Daily Comment “Dead Man Walking” at Sing Sing Photograph by Karen Almond / Courtesy Met Opera Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story The epigraph to Sister Helen Prejean’s book “Dead Man Walking,” published in 1993, is from “The Adventures of Huckleberry …
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Morris Hirshfield’s life seems, at first glance, to be the stuff that inspires biopics: Polish immigrant starts out in the garment industry of New York City, later owns his own tailoring business then shoe store, earns patents for his footwear designs only to lose it …
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Streetview of 550 West 20th Street © 2023 Google New York State is moving forward with a plan to transform a former prison in Chelsea into affordable housing. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday announced a request for proposals (RFP) to redevelop the Bayview Correctional Facility …
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