Mark Bradford’s first London show with Hauser & Wirth offers a stark, post-apocalyptic vision of the future. The exhibition, titled “Cerberus,” is named after the mythical three-headed dog that guards ...
I once sat next to Mark Bradford at a dinner party after helping out with some Art:21 events at an educator conference where he was the keynote speaker. That dinner was one of my favorite moments ...
It’s been more than 10 years since a painter has represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. That was Ed Ruscha in 2005. This week, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University announced that ...
“Me saying hi to you is me welcoming you into the space and saying I see you, I see you,” said Mark Bradford to those gathered at the opening of his new exhibition “You Don’t Have to Tell Me Twice” at ...
Three years ago I wrote a review titled “Is Mark Bradford the Best Painter in America?” It wasn’t an altogether serious question, but it wasn’t facetious either. Bradford is among the most gifted ...
Mark Bradford can’t stand still. His energy – itchy, electric, fidgety – easily fills a gigantic, concrete-lined studio in south LA. His tall, beanpole stature carries with it a sense of urgency that ...
Mark Bradford, “I heard you got arrested today” (2018), mixed media on canvas, 120 x 120 in (© Mark Bradford, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, photo by Joshua White) LOS ANGELES — I brought my ...
Last week brought great news from Getty: The J. Paul Getty Trust has chosen Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford as the recipient of the 2024 Getty Prize, its highest honor, awarded annually since ...
In the spring of 1921, white residents of Tulsa, Okla., burned down the city's black district and murdered scores of African-Americans — men, women, and children. Historians have called it “the single ...
Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford said Wednesday he has been given free rein in how he represents the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, in ...
Mark Bradford is widely considered one of the most important and influential artists in America today. As Anderson Cooper first reported this past spring, Bradford's abstract canvases, which often ...
Mark Bradford, photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Oct. 4. Mark Bradford got a late start as an artist. A former hairstylist, he didn’t begin to work with serious determination ...