2023 Underground Art Market Report
A man was sentenced to prison for selling fake Native artwork in Alaska Aug. 28. Cristobal “Cris” Magno Rodrigo, 59, from Washington state, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act. For years, Rodrigo was selling Philippine-produced …
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Personally named to head the public television and radio service by President Paul Biya in 2005, he fell from favour. His incarceration marked the beginning of an extraordinary legal ordeal, characterised by more than 100 court appearances. He shares his story with The Africa Report. …
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Florida Poet Catherine LaFleur Wins New Prize Honoring an Incarcerated Women Writer Incarcerated Writers in 15 States Win Coveted Awards In Drama, Fiction, Nonfiction-Essay, Nonfiction-Memoir, and Poetry (KY, IL, IA, CA, NY, MN, NC, FL, OK, PA TX, LA, MI, MO, WA) (New York)— Thirty-four …
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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PHOTOGRAPHER PATRICIA CAULFIELD, whose shot of flowers in Barbados was appropriated by Andy Warhol for his famed “Flowers” series, died in July at the age of 91, the New York Times reports. Caulfield sued Warhol, who had …
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The American industrial metal landscape has been furrowed anew with a trenchant furor by Ash Prison. Formed by a triad of subgenre-explorers—Matt Auxier of electro-industrial ensemble 6th Circle, bassist J. Thompson from East Coast darkwave outfit Child Ov Night, and California-based Italian vocalist M. Alagna …
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Van Gogh’s 1884 Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was brazenly taken from a museum during COVID-19 lockdown in a midnight robbery. A Vincent van Gogh painting – stolen from a museum at midnight during an audacious robbery three years ago – has been found …
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We’re in for patchy fog that should turn into partly cloudy skies. Expect a high of 84. The kids are back in school. Summer vacations are over. And with more people back in town and “needing that weekend fun,” as one put it, Philly DJs …
Read MoreFor roughly two dozen people sitting in the church parlor of Greenville’s First Baptist Church on a rainy Thursday in April, it’s their first week out of prison. Hypothetically, at least. The group is participating in a reentry simulation put together by Soteria Community Development …
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Cages can’t contain the sheer amount of imagination on offer in “Sing Sing” — not just in the way director Greg Kwedar and his writing and producing partner Clint Bentley conceived of the prison-set drama, but also as an animating force among its characters. Apart …
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Malaysia’s Court of Appeal has upheld the acquittal of former Prime Minister Najib Razak of audit tampering in relation to the multibillion dollar looting of the 1MDB state fund ByThe Associated Press September 12, 2023, 12:54 AM Rosmah Mansor, center, wife of former Malaysian Prime …
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