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Hart Island Cemetery Will Be Reincarnated as a Public Space

Avatar photo by Kate Gill December 25, 2019January 2, 2020

Historically, the island — the world’s largest tax-funded cemetery — has operated under the purview of the Department of Corrections, which pays Rikers Island inmates $1 an hour to handle the area’s many bodies.

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New York’s Island of the Dead Included in List of 2017 Preservation Priorities

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 17, 2017January 17, 2017

The Historic Districts Council included New York City’s mass grave, Hart Island, among its Six to Celebrate neighborhood preservation priorities.

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Could NYC’s Island of the Dead Become a Green Burial Park?

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 1, 2016February 1, 2016

Each year, hundreds of New Yorkers are buried in trenches dug deep in the soil of Hart Island, a sliver of forgotten land in the Long Island Sound off the eastern shore of the Bronx.

“Like a Homecoming”: Gary Simmons Exhibition Opens at MCA Chicago
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“Like a Homecoming”: Gary Simmons Exhibition Opens at MCA Chicago

Gary Simmons: Public Enemy surveys the artist’s career in exposing legacies of race and class in US popular culture.

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