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Memory Fuels Art And Activism In Mark Bradford's 'Tomorrow Is Another Day'

Bradford represented the U.S. at the 2017 Venice Biennale. An exhibit of his work is now on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art — where one curator says he may well be the best painter working today.
Mark Bradford says he wanted his <em>Spoiled Foot </em>installation to make the viewer feel "as if the center of the room was no longer available."

Mark Bradford is an activist and abstract artist who tends to get described with a lot of adjectives — tall (he's 6'8"), black and gay; he's been both a hairdresser and a MacArthur Fellow.

"What's most important to me is that I'm an artist," Bradford says. "The rest of it is just — the rest of

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