The public longs for a peephole into prisons. I usually don’t need such a portal to prison life but I went to see the Museum of Modern Art exhibit “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” anyway. Arts in prison has a funny history. The Attica prison uprising of 1971 catalyzed the idea that inmates should be allowed to engage in artistic expression. Back in the 1970s, politicians chalked up organized prison disturbances to idleness, the idea that inmates sought to overthrow the carceral state because they were bored, rather than aggrievement.
Prison Art Remains Unstoppable
Prison Art Remains Unstoppable
Prison Art Remains Unstoppable
The public longs for a peephole into prisons. I usually don’t need such a portal to prison life but I went to see the Museum of Modern Art exhibit “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” anyway. Arts in prison has a funny history. The Attica prison uprising of 1971 catalyzed the idea that inmates should be allowed to engage in artistic expression. Back in the 1970s, politicians chalked up organized prison disturbances to idleness, the idea that inmates sought to overthrow the carceral state because they were bored, rather than aggrievement.