The Brooklyn Paper

New Columbus Park sculpture “Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds,” examines fences, incarceration

A new ten-foot-tall sculpture, “Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds,” is now on display in Downtown Brooklyn’s Columbus Park discusses fences and their use to separate communities and people in ...
Hyperallergic

Fred Wilson Summons Ghosts of the Past to Confront the Racism of the Present

Fred Wilson, Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds (2022) at Columbus Park in Downtown Brooklyn (all photos Billy Anania/Hyperallergic) Named after a phrase from a William Blake poem, Mind Forged ...
Artnet

‘I’m Trying to Understand the Visual World Around Me’: Watch Fred Wilson Connect His Multi-Racial Family Background Through His Practice

Take a stroll through downtown Brooklyn this summer and you’ll encounter an ornate roadblock dead in the middle of Columbus Park plaza. A complex and rather beautiful wrought-iron cage stands in the ...
Brownstoner

New Work by Conceptual Artist Fred Wilson Unveiled in Downtown Brooklyn's Columbus Park

Pedestrians making their way through Downtown Brooklyn’s Columbus Park will find a large-scale public sculpture by conceptual artist Fred Wilson has taken up residence on the area’s well-traveled ...