2023 Underground Art Market Report
A Willingboro man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting a 22-year-old woman three years ago inside her Maple Shade apartment. 24-year-old Semaj T. Pittman learned his fate late last week after he had pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree …
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A German museum employee has confessed to an audacious scheme, after he was caught swapping out paintings with forgeries and selling the originals to fund a luxury lifestyle. He has received a suspended prison sentence of one year and nine months and must pay back …
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In a new retrospective, a work that shocked audiences in the 1970s has been altered to suit contemporary mores. “Really, the smart thing to do is compromise,” the artist said. In June 1977, visitors to the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna, Italy, were met …
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LaMar was serving 15 years to life at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility for a 1989 murder when riots broke out in April 1993. At the end of the 11-day standoff, nine inmates and a prison guard were dead, and in 1995 LaMar was convicted …
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Whether you’ve heard of Parchman Farm or not, its impact on American culture has been felt for a long time. Officially the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman was founded in 1901 on the grounds of the former Parchman Plantation. Still in operation today, Parchman has a …
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Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, died on Monday in a hospital prison ward, several months after being captured as Italy’s No. 1 fugitive and following decades on the run, Italian prosecutors said. Messina Denaro’s death …
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The 25th exhibition to be held at Christine Serchia’s eponymous residential gallery in leafy Cotham will be Jamie Murray’s Folly, opening on September 27. UWE alumnus Murray is a photographer and lecturer teaching at Bristol’s boomsatsuma, whose work has been exhibited at the Martin Parr …
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Enlarge this image FILE – This photo reproduction of a computer-generated image released by Italian Police of Matteo Messina Denaro is displayed at the Palermo police headquarters, Italy, Thursday, April 6, 2007. Alessandro Fucarini/AP Alessandro Fucarini/AP ROME (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind …
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ROME — Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, died on Monday in a hospital prison ward, several months after being captured as Italy’s No. 1 fugitive and following decades on the run, Italian prosecutors said. Rai …
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