2023 Underground Art Market Report
Prison Architect is a strategy game which has you build a prison capable of containing “the world’s most ruthless inmates” only for you to then try and escape your own creation. The game garnered quite a bit of praise upon its release back in 2015, …
Read MoreA display of “Rock Art in Wyoming” at the Wyoming Territorial Prison Historic Site. Courtesy photo Hand-drawn and carved images created in Wyoming’s distant past are explored in the traveling exhibit, “Rock Art in Wyoming,” at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. The traveling …
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Paradox Interactive‘s upcoming prison management sim, Prison Architect 2, has now got a release date – and it’s less than three months away. After promising to share news on the sim’s next chapter on January 16, developer Double Eleven has today announced the release date …
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January 5- February 19, 2024 This January, President Lincoln’s Cottage is partnering with Justice Arts Coalition on an exhibit, Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project featuring artwork by incarcerated artists critiquing the US Justice System. This project is the creation of journalist Caddell Kivett, one of …
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In a statement shared with The Art Newspaper by Amnesty International, the Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who is being held in jail in Cuba, says: “We must continue to struggle from every corner of this world against evil, lies and injustice.” …
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Cosplayer and streamer @ChuRuuna created a fan art cake based on the infamous Prison Realm from Jujutsu Kaisen, capturing its unique cube-like shape and worn texture. The artist added a special touch by replacing the cube’s red eyes with Gojo‘s blue pupils, giving the impression …
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An exhibition of drawing, sculpture, crafts and writing by people serving time in prisons that were built nearly 200 years ago. Bringing this material into conversation with new photography from Andy Aitchison, archival documents and interviews, it prompts conversations about living and working conditions in …
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The moment someone sets foot in a prison is the moment that person stops living. “In prison, the environment really makes everyone feel like they can only exist; living doesn’t seem like an option anymore,” said Frederick Griffin. Griffin was 16 years old when he …
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Dean McKee, his work You have to be a prisoner, a prison guard or a prison visitor to see Dean McKee’s art. Convicted of first degree murder in 1988, when he was 16, McKee’s spent the whole of his adult life in prison. In that …
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Janie Ritter stands with a portrait of Barack Obama at the cottage. (WTOP/Dick Uliano) WTOP/Dick Uliano Presidential portraits painted by inmates at the cottage on Rock Creek Church Road in Northwest. (WTOP/Dick Uliano) WTOP/Dick Uliano Presidential portraits painted by inmates at the cottage on Rock …
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