Crack hour

Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Download our app and ask your own questions about this exhibition during your visit. Here's one that others have asked. Use the Participate button to learn more and submit a photograph and dedication for your loved one via the project website. Note: This exhibition is available in four languages.

View the exhibition description in Spanish , Russian , or Simplified Chinese. How can we memorialize and visualize the extraordinary loss of life caused by COVID, even as it continues to rage throughout the world? In this participatory artwork, a modified robotic plotter deposits grains of hourglass sand onto a black surface to recreate the images of those lost due to COVID After each portrait is completed, the surface tilts and the same sand is recycled into the next portrait, echoing the collective and ongoing nature of the pandemic.

Those seeking a way to mourn loved ones lost during the pandemic are invited to participate in this ongoing project. Submit a photograph of the deceased at www. The resulting memorials will be available, via livestream and in archive form , on the project's website. A senior law-enforcement official noted to The Post that the sales occurred in an area with a vulnerable population living in the shadows of the glitz of Broadway. The group peddled their illicit goods between at least December and this month, investigators said.

The investigation — using an undercover law-enforcement officer and surveillance video — revealed that hundreds of grams of crack were sold, police sources said. During a period of 11 days this past March and April, the group conducted more than hand-to-hand sales, officials said. Officers previously busted Starks in January in the Times Square area, seizing from him about capsules and 52 twists of crack cocaine, according to the officials.

Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement. The charge they face carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison.