A “Wall of Tears” zip-tied to a fence in Brooklyn lists the names of 18,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza. Artist Phil Buehler hopes the public work will confront people with the scale of the loss. Spanning a 50-foot fence between a tea shop and a bar in Bushwick, the “Wall of Tears,” a temporary installation by Brooklyn-based artist Phil Buehler, confronts passersby with the names of the estimated 18,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza from October 2023 to July 2025. pwbuehler is a photographer whose public art projects include portraits of the empty beds of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian forces and documentation of Ferguson in mourning after the killing of Michael Brown. Produced in collaboration with radiofreebk, the “Wall of Tears” is on view at 12 Grattan Street until February 15. “Some people don’t want to see things, or are unconscious of them,” Buehler said in an interview. “In addition to just adding more eyeballs to the story, I’m hoping maybe it opens some...