Design
A Sculptor Grapples With Robert Moses' Brutal Urbanism
New York’s controversial “master planner” haunts artist Lena Henke’s intimate ceramics and maps.
In 1936, Robert Moses gave a 30-day eviction notice to the people of Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A bridge would be built where their homes stood. Protests did not prevail. Over the years, the remains of their bulldozed homes, and of other New York “slums” cleared by the controversial parks-commissioner-turned-chief-of-all-construction, were deposited into a shoreline landfill called Dead Horse Bay.