by Dan Hunter | Jul 19, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
You can’t pop the hood for an inspection. There’s no starting switch, no pedals to pump and no brakes. Your brain just goes. And goes. And the more it goes the sharper it becomes. You can’t feel it, and you can’t see it. But it is consuming glucose and energy...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 16, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
In his first exhibition (1940), Bill Traylor’s art work was described as “primitive.” In New York (1943), it was classified as “folk art by an old Negro man.” It went into storage, unseen for 33 years. Then, it was labeled “Black Folk Art” by the Corcoran Gallery...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 16, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
“Sometimes, I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day’s end. …I was then annoyed by the floating dust of iron and coal …”...
