2023 Underground Art Market Report
Following last month’s inmate escape and the consequent 14-day manhunt, Chester County Prison will receive major upgrades, writes Sharifa Jackson for 6ABC. Chester County residents got an opportunity to speak to officials face-to-face earlier this week during a town hall that provided people with some …
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Marilyn Moore insists she wasn’t shocked four years ago when a blizzard of absentee ballots cast in favor of Bridgeport Mayor Joseph P. Ganim blew away her victory at the polls. Too many people told her what was coming. “I can’t say how many people …
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Roberto Lugo, a Philadelphia artist known for making pottery depicting Black and Latino heroes and urban neighborhoods, has been awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for the Arts, one of the largest awards for individual achievement in the world. It comes with a cash prize of …
Read MoreBased in Downtown Morgantown, the Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) is an organization dedicated to educating people who are incarcerated through mailing books and education programs within the region. Since its inception in 2004, the reach and successes of the project has extended to 200 prisons and …
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In a summer devastated by increasingly biblical levels of natural disasters from fires and floods to earthquakes and hurricanes, all exacerbated—if not wrought—by human malfeasance, we are additionally hobbled by pointless wars, excessive levels of crime, and political imbroglios. If that’s not enough to ruin …
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Major security upgrades are planned for a Pennsylvania prison after Danilo Cavalcante’s escape led to an intense 14-day manhunt, authorities pledged at a town hall meeting. Cavalcante was convicted of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his former girlfriend in 2021 and sent to …
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Jeremia Scales always wanted to be the first, texting or calling his family at the stroke of midnight to wish them a happy birthday or happy Mother’s Day. The 25-year-old from West Mifflin loved music. He could play piano, drums, trumpet, harmonica and guitar, and …
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CNN — Major security upgrades are planned for Chester County Prison after Danilo Cavalcante’s escape led to an intense 14-day manhunt, authorities pledged at a town hall meeting Monday. “We are planning to do numerous safety enhancements, most of which come from technology, personnel movement, …
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In the past two weeks, the Unesco World Heritage Committee has discussed more than 50 natural and cultural sites worldwide, deciding which ones to add to its World Heritage List and providing legal protections to those deemed “of outstanding value to humanity”. Among the newly …
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During my art school education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the early ’90s, our teachers made us study the history of painting ranging from the old masters to the Abstract Expressionists. We learned about various approaches to shape, texture, brushstroke …
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