Has there been any media coverage of this by the New York Times and Washington Post?
None that I can find. Only thing that's in the NYT:
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April
Shellyne Rodriguez
Shellyne Rodriguez’s terrific debut exhibition at PPOW is forthrightly political art warmed by tender personal detail. The artist was born in the Bronx in 1977. That’s the terrain she focuses in her photographically precise color pencil drawings on black paper. And a wide terrain it is, global in population, rich in cultural history.
Has there been any media coverage of this by the New York Times and Washington Post?
None that I can find. Only thing that's in the NYT:
https://archive.is/ktpum