"A 'Fauxdega' Where the Real Bodegas Have Been Priced Out," Art & Design Section, The New York Times, by Blake Gopnik, June 6, 2017

Today’s public art demands research. You don’t show in an old sugar factory without studying plantation labor. You don’t install in an abandoned prison without reading up on inmates’ lives. When the British artist Lucy Sparrow was preparing for her first New York installation, “8 ’Till Late,” a mock convenience store that just opened in a storefront beside the Standard, High Line, hotel in New York, she spent days exploring how the American version of Spam came in such un-British flavors as “teriyaki” and “hickory smoke”; how corner stores in the United States sell hot dogs and pizza as well ...