When Anthony Holmes goes to the doctor today, he’s asked: How many heart attacks have you had? That’s because, Holmes says, the torture he faced in 1973 at the hands of then-Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge included shocking him with an electric shock box and suffocating him with plastic bags. Burge and the mostly white […]
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‘The Long Term’ uses art to connect Stateville prisoners to the outside world
“A lot of people don’t think about how long-term sentencing creates a long-term struggle for freedom and a long-term loss in communities.”
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At the Hull-House Museum, artwork made while doing time
Stateville Correctional Center inmates find creative ways to serve out their sentences.
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Odds N Friends, A History of Everything, and other arty stuff to do this weekend
Arty stuff to do this weekend
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10/18 – Art and the Right to Laziness
Stickin’ it to the Man by lying down with conceptual artist Sarah Ross