[1] These include those of the Federal Reserve Bank, the Smithsonian, Alec Baldwin, Benjamin Bratt, David Bowie, Willem Dafoe, Alan Dershowitz,[2] and the Clintons.
[4] Bery's long-held view is that he is "self-taught", though he openly acknowledges his studies at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the studios of Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz in Italy.
[5][6] Bery sued the City of New York in 1993 to fight against a law forbidding artists from selling their work on the streets without a vending license.
[15] Bery was near the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11 and happened to catch somewhat rare footage of the tragedy along with New Yorkers' initial responses to it.
[16] The footage has been the subject of controversy among conspiracy theorists and is discussed on many subversive websites questioning whether CNN maintained objectivity in its coverage of 9/11 in the weeks following the terrorist attack.