The year is 2019, the place is the United States, and a black man walks into a foundry wanting to cast some bronze grenades.
This is how the American artist Ed Bereal, 82, recaps preparing for his first retrospective at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham Washington.
Creating new work for his politically charged exhibition “WANTED: Ed Bereal for Disturbing the Peace” raised some eyebrows in this predominantly white coastal city 20 miles from Canada.