Remembering Pope.L, the self-proclaimed 'friendliest Black artist in America'
His 50-year career was filled with transgressive performances, including the Times Square Crawls, which interrogated race and class
Source: theartnewspaper.com
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His 50-year career was filled with transgressive performances, including the Times Square Crawls, which interrogated race and class
American artist known for his epic street ‘crawls’ through 70s New York, who also showed at the Museum of Modern Art
Pope.L called himself a “fisherman of social absurdity.” He once crawled along New York’s Broadway in a Superman costume and ate scraps of the Wall Street Journal while sitting on a toilet.