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The Fate of Faith Ringgold’s Rikers Mural Is More Complicated Than You Think
The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...
‘Paint Me a Road Out of Here’: Faith Ringgold’s Gift to Prisoners
In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided ...
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The Ultimates #9 Review: Luke Cage Breaks Down the Prison-Industrial Complex
The Ultimates turns its focus to another iconic Marvel superhero: Luke Cage who fights on The Maker’s prison regardless of ...
Sioux City Journal7d
Intimate art: New Sioux City Art Center exhibit focuses on personal portraits of Midwest artists
The new exhibit at the Sioux City Art Center, 'Close to Me,' deals with photography focused on such intensely personal ...
The Ridgefield Press9d
‘We painted our fear, hope and dreams’ − examining the art and artists of Guantánamo Bay
Al-Alwi was detainee number “028” – an indication that he was one of the first to arrive at the U.S. military prison off Cuba after it opened in January 2002. His departure from the detention center ...
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Trump Bars Transgender Women From U.S. Prisons for Female Inmates
But they represent an outsize portion of federal inmates, especially among female prisoners: 15 percent of women in prison are transgender. There are 750 transgender men out of about 144,000 male ...
Rutland Herald14d
‘The Painters’ Hands’: Timothy Curtis celebrates graffiti and Pennsylvania Dutch traditions
Six faces, each a white moon-like circle, each one with a distinctive gentle expression composed with a few lines of dark blue paint, seem to float at the center of a profusion of abstracted elongated ...
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Local inmates showcase their art through Norfolk art exhibit ‘Beyond the Block’
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Local inmates showcase their art through Norfolk art exhibit ‘Beyond the Block’
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The Art Newspaper15d
A new volume explores the intimate art of drawing, as seen through a wider lens
On the face of things, a focus on drawing rather than painting or sculpture looks like a canny tactic if you are attempting a history of art, especially an “alternative” one. You are ...
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'Sing Sing', a film about art in prison, gets 3 Oscar nominations
You cut that out of schools, there's - I feel like there's a path to the prison industrial complex. Art is not frivolous. Art connects us, and we need it in our society. We need it in our schools.
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Local inmates showcase their art through Norfolk exhibit ‘Beyond the Block’
NORFOLK, Va. — Inmates in Chesapeake, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach will have their artwork on full display in the Chrysler Museum of Art as part of the ‘Beyond the Block’ exhibit from Jan. 28 ...