In a typically bullish interview (recorded in 1959, but unpublished until after his suicide in 1970), painter Mark Rothko told Harper's staffer John Fisher, “I don’t prophesy the woes to come. I just paint the woes already here.” Conceptual artist Franko B knows all about life's woes. Interviewed before a rare performance of his piece Milk … Continue reading FIGHT CLUB | Franko B & Me
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