Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was whitewashed.
"The Whole World Is a Mystery" at the Carnegie Museum of Art marks the first retrospective look at Gertrude Abercrombie in ...
As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...