The harshness of life behind bars is designed to crush inmates’ individuality. But a stirring exhibition at MoMA PS1 shows the prison-industrial complex can’t stifle the artistic impulse.
Source: New York Times
Making Art When ‘Lockdown’ Means Prison
Published in ART, Fleetwood, Nicole, Long Island City (Queens, NY), Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Exhibit), MoMA PS1, Prisons and Prisoners, Race and Ethnicity, Sentences (Criminal), Smith, Sable Elyse and Solitary Confinement
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