“Robert Delford Brown, a painter, sculptor, performance artist and avant-garde philosopher whose exuberantly provocative works challenged orthodoxies of both the art world and the world at large, usually with a big wink, was found dead on March 24 in the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, N.C. . . . “A colleague of artists like Jim [...]
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R.I.P. – Robert Delford Brown (1930-2009)
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