A New York City robbery suspect died after throwing himself off of a Bronx jail barge into the East River, representing the 14th death in NYC Department of Correction custody this year.
Gregory Acevedo, 48, jumped from the rooftop recreation yard at the Vernon C. Bain Center in Hunt’s Point about 11:44 a.m. Tuesday after climbing a fence and crawling through razor wire in an escape attempt.
NEW YORK (AP) An inmate who jumped into the East River from a New York City jail barge has died, the city Department of Correction announced Wednesday. Gregory Acevedo, 48, was pronounced dead at about 11 p.m.
In the third episode of this series of
A brush with., Ben Luke speaks to the New York-based artist Roni Horn about the art, music, literature and cultural experiences that influence her work. She discusses her childhood affinity with Marcel Duchamp, her love of jazz and soul music and her collaborative friendship with the late artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Born in New York in 1955, Horn trained at the Rhode Island School of Design before graduating from the Yale School of Art. While her work encompasses drawing, photography, installation and the artist book, Horn is arguably best known for sculpture, such as her large pieces of cast glass, usually executed in a single colour. These often have frosted, polished outer layers creating a deliciously opaque surface, which allows these solid structures to take on the uncertain qualities of a liquid, absorbing the light of their space and reflecting the movement of our own bodies. Throughout Horn s diverse oeuvre exists the unifying the