Julia Lish, a correctional officer, comforts an inmate during one of his psychotic episodes. “Its going to be okay,” she repeats as he cries and yells to the voices in his head.
Photographer Jenn Ackerman captures the lives of the mentally ill living in the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit of the Kentucky State Reformatory. See more photos from her project, “Trapped,” here.
Photos above taken by NewsHour’s Cat Wise (how apropos!)
At the Internet Cat Video Festival in Oakland, Calif., around 6,000 people gathered on a late spring afternoon to celebrate all things feline and to watch nearly 70 minutes of hilarious cat web videos projected on a 10-story building after the sun went down.
The festival is the brain-child of Scott Stulen who is project director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Last summer, Stulen and his colleagues posted a request for people to nominate their favorite cat web videos. They received 10,000 submissions from all over the world, and 79 were selected to be shown at a festival at the museum.
A skater performs a trick at the South Bank skatepark in London. Plans are underway to refurbish the complex, which would be replaced with new arts venues and retail outlets. The skatepark, hailed as the birthplace of British skateboarding, is to be moved to a nearby area, which has angered the skateboarding community.
Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.
A treasure trove of Cubist art and a record gift for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. http://to.pbs.org/ZnS089
Nigerian novelist, poet, essayist, statesman and dissident Chinua Achebe died Thursday in Boston after a brief illness at age 82. Achebe emerged upon the literary world in 1958 with the publication of his influential novel “Things Fall Apart.”
One persons’ trash is another person’s treasure.
At the “Yes Naturally” exhibition in The Hague, Netherlands flowers grow out of scrap cars in Finnish artist Tea Makipaa’s installation “Petrol Engine Memorial Park.” Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images.
Artist Christian Tribastone and several other artists came together on the National Mall Saturday morning for a ‘Sketch Crawl.” The artists made their way through the National Mall stopping a various locations for 45 minutes at a time to stop and sketch.
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