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Banksy Pledges $13.3 Million to Help Turn the U.K. Prison Where Oscar Wilde Was Once Held Into an Art Center
Banksy has emerged as a possible white knight in a long-unrealized plan to transform the vacant prison where Oscar Wilde was once held into an art center. Reading Gaol has been up for sale since 2019 and, without a better offer, could potentially be turned into apartments. The famed street artist has offered to sell the stencil he used to paint a mural on the facade of the famous building in March. The sale could raise £10 million ($13.3 million) to support the Reading Borough Council’s effort offer to buy the grade II listed historic building in Reading, which is around 40 miles (64 km) west of London. Earlier this…
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12/9/21 Entertainment News – KTOE
12/9/21 Entertainment News — Amazon is set to stream the Kanye West and Drake concert this evening. Taking place in Los Angeles, the “Free Larry Hoover” concert will stream globally on Prime Video and the Amazon Music App, as well as the Amazon Music Twitch channel at 8 pm Pacific time. The show is set to benefit Larry Hoover, a former gang leader who was convicted of murder, conspiracy, extortion and money laundering in 1997. He’s serving six life sentences in federal prison. His son was featured on West’s latest album, talking about issues with the country’s criminal justice system. — A ten-billion-dollar lawsuit is being filed over Travis Scott’s…
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Rich Hollant’s ‘All That Remains’ photography exhibit in Hartford focuses on impermanence of memory
A photography exhibit opening Dec. 9 at Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, “All That Remains,” reflects on the impermanent nature of memory. Photographer Richard Hollant said the theme fits his own transitory recollections of the photos he took, as well as the medium he used to capture the images. “They stopped making Polaroid film years ago. You can buy it from people who bought it back then, but it’s past its expiration date. There is no guarantee it will still work,” Hollant said. “The more enamored I get with Polaroid, the more I find its ephemeral nature. It has a feeling of ‘that too will pass’.” What also “will…
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Artist Simone Leigh Reveals Her Plans for the Venice Biennale, Including a Major Symposium of Black Thinkers and Makers
The title of the U.S. pavilion at next year’s 59th Venice Biennale will be “Simone Leigh: Grittin“—and come fall, the artist will host a major convening, “Loophole of Retreat: Venice,” for the occasion. The new details about the eagerly-anticipated exhibition—Simone Leigh is the first Black woman artist to represent the U.S. at the prestigious event—were revealed today by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the pavilion’s commissioner, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. “This will be the first time the U.S. Pavilion is entirely dedicated to the experiences and contributions of Black women,” Jill Medvedow, the ICA’s director, said in a statement. “Global in…
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Music Industry Moves: UTA Nashville Hires Six New Agents and Execs
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