2023 Underground Art Market Report
Featured events From Jail to Yale: Humanities Week Keynote Address by George Chochos During his nearly 12 years in prison, Chochos earned multiple college degrees through prison education programs. Chochos completed a master’s degree at Yale University following his release from prison. He now works …
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Have you ever heard of a cosmetology school within a prison? MDOC opened the state’s first licensed Cosmetology school for inmates in several years. The Mississippi State Board of Cosmetology traveled to the Delta Correctional Facility (DCF) in Greenwood to cut the ribbon after spending …
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Industry: Books Former Correctional Officer unveils an in-depth look at the language that fuels California prison culture. Floresville, TX (PRUnderground) October 17th, 2023 Eric “Superman” Sturgess, a former correctional officer at the California Department of Corrections, art collector, and author, is happy to announce the …
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Pyotr Pavlensky received a prison sentence of six months after releasing intimate footage of a Paris mayoral candidate. The Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky was convicted on privacy invasion and consent laws in France after publishing intimate texts and videos of a politician for an art …
Read MorePyotr Pavlensky received a prison sentence of six months after releasing intimate footage of a Paris mayoral candidate. The Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky was convicted on privacy invasion and consent laws in France after publishing intimate texts and videos of a politician for an art …
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IN THE TOWER OF FRANKFURT’S Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), where Cameron Rowland’s newest exhibition, “Amt 45 i,”is currently on display, there is an enormous cast-iron sugar kettle, five feet in diameter. In an essay accompanying the exhibition, Rowland writes that such kettles “operated through …
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As a commuter tried to make out the words of Richard C. Shaner’s “Gilman Pond Mountain,” someone walked right over it. Engraved poems line the brick floor of the Davis Square MBTA station. Installed in the 1980s shortly after the station was initially constructed, the poems range from …
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For its fourth iteration, the World Culture Festival set up on the National Mall for a three-day celebration from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. More than 450,000 attendees from 180 countries joined the Art of Living Foundation for a weekend of unity and peace. What …
Read MoreArticle 0 Comments MIAMI (AP) — A Florida executive whose family business once owned Playgirl magazine is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud for misleading investors in another of his companies — one that made high-interest loans to small businesses. …
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Six paintings stolen from an old town hall in the small coastal town of Medemblik in north Holland have been returned via an unusual doorstep delivery to an art detective in Amsterdam. Arthur Brand, known for his work in recovering an early Van Gogh painting …
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