{"id":4421,"date":"2015-06-26T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2015-06-26T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:28:01","slug":"breaking-out-of-prison-with-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/breaking-out-of-prison-with-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking out of Prison with Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now many of you will have heard of the convicted killers, Richard Matt &#038; David Sweat, who recently escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4423\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/David-Sweat-Richard-Matt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4423\" src=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/David-Sweat-Richard-Matt.jpg\" alt=\"David Sweat &amp; Richard Matt\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/David-Sweat-Richard-Matt.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/David-Sweat-Richard-Matt-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/David-Sweat-Richard-Matt-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Sweat &#038; Richard Matt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These deranged killers have eluded the authorities for weeks, and are presumed to be armed &#038; dangerous. In investigating where the pair got ahold of the tools required to escape from one of the most secure prisons in the US, it would appear that Matt is an artist who exchanged his work for tools. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that right &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/richard-w-matt-angelina-jolie-julia-roberts-311969\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Matt exchanged portraits of celebrities for tools to escape prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4422\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/barack-obama-richard-matt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4422\" src=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/barack-obama-richard-matt.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Barack Obama, by Richard W. Matt\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/barack-obama-richard-matt.jpg 700w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/barack-obama-richard-matt-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/barack-obama-richard-matt-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Barack Obama, by Richard W. Matt<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The stone-cold killer who busted out of a Dannemora prison is an amateur artist who loves to paint \u2014 especially portraits of political and celebrity figures, a friend told CNY Central TV in Syracuse.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/richard-matt-made-portraits-obama-oprah-celebs-article-1.2259314\" target=\"_blank\">New York Daily News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now many of you will have heard of the convicted killers, Richard Matt &#038; David Sweat, who recently escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York. These deranged killers have eluded the authorities for weeks, and are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-19j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}