Viewfinder: Pop-Up Installations Depicting Crying Children in Cages Appear in New York City

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Jun 17, 2019

Police take away a pop-up art installation depicting a small child curled up underneath a foil survival blanket in a chain-link cage that stands along a Brooklyn street on June 12th, 2019, in New York City. Representing migrant children in Border Patrol custody, the cages were placed in front of the offices of various news organizations and other highly trafficked areas in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
(Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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