Correction Department (NYC)
Faith Ringgold Mural at Rikers Island to Move to Brooklyn Museum
In 2019, the painter Faith Ringgold traveled to Rikers Island so that she could see how her first public art commission, a 1972 mural called “For the Women’s House,” was faring. Not so good, she decided, and the artist, who is 91, continued to quietly wage her campaign to see her work, which hung in […]
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A Look Inside Rikers: ‘Fight Night’ and Gang Rule, Captured on Video
The men had gotten along on Rikers Island, had even been friendly, but now they were face to face inside a jail cell — and a gang leader had just ordered them to fight. Unable to refuse him, the men began to pummel one another while, outside the cell, other detainees jostled and cheered. When […]
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