This week’s Weekly has Roberta’s interview with Blake Bradford, Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation. Below is an expanded copy of that interview (which is not available online at the Weekly).
Roberta sits down with Barkley Hendricks, whose exhibit, ‘Birth of the Cool’ is a wow at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The show features Hendricks’s signature portraits of African American people looking like icons worthy of worship – a little mysterious and forbidding and downright gorgeous.
