Cruelest disease you have never heard of. Its called frontotemporal dementia, or f. T. D. F. T. D. Is the number one form of dementia in americans under the age of 60. I was washing my hands, and i looked in the mirror, and i did not recognize my own face. Didnt recognize yourself. No. I looked in the mirror, and i kept looking, and i remember i kept looking at this woman, wondering, who was she . ticking Mark Bradford is widely considered one of the most important and influential artists in america today. His abstract canvases, which often deal with complex social and political issues, hang in major museums around the world. Thats all right. That is all right. Its like an archeological dig. It is like an archeological dig. Its like history. Im creating my own archaeological or psychological digs. Sometimes, when im digging on my own painting, im asking myself, well, exactly what are you digging for . Where do you want to go, child . ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. 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But today, fentanyl can be ordered on the internet, by drug dealers and addicts, for an online overdose. As we first reported in april, tracking the source of this Illicit Trade is a story that begins with james rauh. Like most in akron, ohio, hed never heard of fentanyl, until the police told him his son was dead. James rauh they told me that the drug was so powerful that he was unable to finish his injection, and then he died immediately. Pelley he didnt even finish the inion . Rauh hed only. Only just started the injection. He didnt even have a chance. Pelley james rauhs son, tom, was 37 when he died in 2015. Hed started opioids years before, after an injury. When his prescription ran out, he turned to heroin. Hed been in and out of rehab more than half a dozen times when fentanyl inundated ohio. Rauh there was something extremely dangerous going on, because tom was a veteran addict. You know, he knew how to dose himself. He knew how much he could he could handle. I was wondering, how in the world this would get here and who would be selling it . Pelley one week after tom rauhs death, the mother of 23 yearold Carrie Dobbins grabbed her phone. Operator akron 911, what is the location of your emergency . Mother my daughter is dead. I just went, got home from work a little bit ago, and i went down in the basement. Shes dead operator please stay on the line with me, maam. You need to be very specific. Mother i think she did drugs. Pelley two deaths in akron in seven days made assistant u. S. Attorney matt cronin wonder where all the fentanyl was coming from. The target of an investigation, a lowlevel drug dealer, had the answer. Matt cronin the target said that he can get any drugs he could ever imagine, over the internet from china. Pelley cronins investigators went online and discovered overseas labs offering most any illegal drug. Cronin we just said, hey, according to the sources instructions, were interested in buying fentanyl. And the result was, to say the least, surprising. We have dozens, probably over 50 different Drug Trafficking networks reaching out to us, saying, we have fentanyl. We have even more powerful fentanyl analogs. Whatever you want, well get it for you, for cheap. Well get it for you in bulk. Pelley you got 50 replies . Cronin at least. Pelley and all of these came from where . Cronin it was universally china. Pelley what did you do next . Cronin instead of trying to find our way to a target, we had far too many. So what we decided to do was go through the list and see any that popped out. And one name in particular struck out, out of the list. Pelley what was that name . Cronin gordon jin. Pelley when gordon jin was making claims about what he could provide, what did he tell your undercover agents . Cronin what gordon jin said he could provide to you was essentially, any drug you could imagine those that exist, those that dont even currently exist. He called it custom synthesis. What it really meant was made toorder poison. Pelley well track down the man prosecutors say is gordon jin, in a moment. But first, have a look at fentanyl and its derivatives. Justin herdman is u. S. Attorney in cleveland. He told us some of this was seized by the d. E. A. The rest was found in the mail by u. S. Postal service inspectors. Justin herdman this is essentially enough fentanyl and carfentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in the city of cleveland. Pelley just this . Herdman just this. Pelley carfentanyl is a derivative used by veterinarians to tranquilize elephants. Herdman carfentanyl is another 100 times more potent than fentanyl. Here, youve got 300 grams of powder that could deliver a fatal dose to 150,000 people. Here, youve got only five grams of powder which could deliver a fatal dose to over 250,000 people. Pelley so if you touch this stuff, it could kill you . Herdman yeah pelley just touch it . Herdman theres a reason we have a medic standing by, scott, and thats because an overdose is unfortunately, its something that we have to be prepared for, even even dealing with it in an evidence bag. Pelley herdman showed us pills that look like prescription opioids, but are dangerous counterfeits. Herdman whether its cocaine, or you think its heroin, or you think its pills, its going to have fentanyl in it. Pelley why . Herdman its cheaper to buy fentanyl. And because its so potent, you can cut it in a way that you can deliver far more doses with a little bit of fentanyl. So its a profit motive for them. Pelley where did all this stuff come from . Herdman its from china. Its manufactured in china. These are all related to cases that involve the mail or the use of the postal system. So this, somebody put this into a box, sealed it up and sent it through the postal system. Pelley the United States postal system has been, for many years, the most reliable way to smuggle drugs from china to the u. S. Rob portman that has to stop. It shouldve stopped years ago. Pelley ohio senator rob portmans staff investigated the traffic. What did your offices investigation find . Portman shocking, what we found. Which was that people who were trafficking in fentanyl told us, if you send it through the post office, we guarantee delivery. If you send it through a private carrier, not so. Pelley thats because after 9 11, all private carriers like fedex were required to give u. S. Customs advance descriptions and tracking of foreign packages. The Postal Service was allowed to delay because of the cost. Portman they gave the post office some time, and said, you need to give us a report as to how you can also comply with this. That was 16 years ago, scott. Its primarily produced in laboratories in china, and its primarily coming to the United States through the United States mail system. Pelley portman sponsored a bill to force the post office to send advance notice of shipments from china. And last fall, the bill became law. Portman we now have this legislation in place. They need to impnt i ickl they need to do Everything Possible to screen these packages coming in. Pelley but the Postal Service was supposed to do that by the end of last year. It says china is not cooperating. About a third of the packages from china, shipped by the u. S. Postal service, still do not have advance content information. Cronin the gordon jin Drug Trafficking organization, in their own communications and advertisements online, say that they ship to five continents, in all 50 states. They advertised, and it seemed accurate, they had special ways to bypass customs in the u. S. , the u. K. , the e. U. And russia. Pelley assistant u. S. Attorney matt cronin told us that gordon jin would often slip fentanyl past u. S. Customs by shipping it to a coconspirator in the United States, posing as a legitimate chemical company. Shipments between Chemical Companies werent considered suspicious. A large crate would arrive at the u. S. Company, but inside, there would be as many as 50 individual drug packages, each addressed to the person whod ordered them. Cronin so they take out these 50 different parcels and send it across the United States and, as i mentioned, even the world. Pelley they were going out to the door of the individual people that ordered them online. Cronin thats right. We realized that we found gordon jins Drug Trafficking route, essentially his camouflage to get the drugs into the United States. Pelley according to prosecutors, gordon jin, is an alias for a father and son drug lab in china. Matt cronin briefed chinese authorities on the evidence, but the chinese failed to act. Later, a grand jury in the United States indicted the father and son, and theyre now wanted in the u. S. , but they enjoy freedom in china. 60 minutes producer bob anderson found Guanghua Zheng, the father, outside a Shanghai Grocery store. Robert anderson this is you and your son. This is put out in the u. S. To arrest you in the u. S. Pelley when anderson asked zheng if he was still selling fentanyl in the u. S. , zheng answered with an emphatic, no no the woman with him did not like our questions. She tells him, dont speak, dont speak she tells us, dont come back. Anderson will the Chinese Government ever arrest you . Will the Chinese Government ever arrest you . Pelley he said, the Chinese Government has nothing to do with it. Anderson what do you say to parents . What do you say to parents whose children died from taking your drugs . Pelley zheng had no answer for that. But, he had had enough of 60 minutes. Prosecutors say that the fentanyl that killed Carrie Dobbins and tom rauh came from the gordon jin lab in china and arrived in akron via the u. S. Postal service. Cronin the thing that got me the most, though, was how brazen they were. They wrote a blog and posted it on a website about how they create a certain type of synthetic narcotic. And they stated in that blog that its tied to overdoses. In other words, that its so potent, it can kill you. Pelley why would they want to associate themselves with people whod died using these drugs . Cronin the unfortunate truth is that when you have an addict, sometimes theyre seeking the greatest high possible, and that can be the high that comes closest to death. Pelley and so they were bragging. Cronin absolutely. Pelley that their drugs were so potent, that people had overdosed and died. Cronin they were the best out there. Thats right. Pelley their boast was tragically true for the son of james rauh. Rauh it destroys families. Because what happens to a family is, a person gets sick, and youre trying to help them, and youre trying to do everything that you can. And then you lose them, and so you suffer. You suffer up to that point, and then you suffer when they die, and then you suffer afterwards, because you could have stopped it. You feel that every single day. You think, what could i have done to stop this from happening to my family . I was in charge. I didnt do this right, and its its breaking my heart. Pelley the u. S. Has sealed off the overseas Bank Accounts of Guanghua Zheng and his son. The feds also shut down what prosecutors say were thengs 40 websites selling Illegal Drugs in 20 languages. We dont know if their lab shut down, but the network has been, at least for now. Cronin it is a fact that the peoples republic of china is the source for the vast majority of synthetic opioids that are flooding the streets of the United States and western democracies. 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What causes it is unclear, but it attacks the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which control personality and speech, and its always fatal. It is not alzheimers disease, which degrades the part of the brain responsible for memory. With f. T. D. , people either display such bizarre behavior that their loved ones can hardly recognize them, or they lose the ability to recognize themselves. As we first reported in may, thats what happened to tracey lind one day, a few years ago, as she was standing in a public restroom. Tracey lind i was washing my hands, and i looked in the mirror, and i did not recognize my own face. Whitaker didnt recognize yourself. Lind no. I looked in the mirror, and i kept looking, and i remember i kept looking at this woman, wondering, who was she . Whitaker this is who she was the very reverend tracey lind, dean of the episcopal cathedral in cleveland, ohio, one of the citys most prominent preachers and civic leaders. She was 61 years old when both she and her spouse Emily Ingalls began to notice trouble with things tracey had always done very well; like finding the right word, recognizing congregants and friends faces, and, of course, her own. Lind thats when i said, oh, man. Ive got to go see a doctor. Whitaker when that happened, were you were you scared . Lind oh, i was scared to death. Whitaker emily, what did you think was happening . Emily ingalls i thought, theres something not right with her brain. Whitaker on election day 2016, tracey lind got the diagnosis frontotemporal dementia. She has whats called the speech variant of the disease, which, among other things, attacks the part of the brain where language lives. Lind sometimes you just youre fine and youre on. And then there are other times that the words just dont come out. I mean, it even if i know what the word is, somet sometimes i feel like im playing bingo. And when i find the word, its i. I shout it. I like, i feel like an imbecile, you know. Apple. Oh, yeah apple, thats it. And i get all excited. Whitaker this is acutely painful for tracey, because being a powerful, effective speaker has always been at the core of her identity. One of the first things you did once you got this diagnosis was to resign from your job as dean at trinity cathedral. Lind right. Whitaker whyd you take that action so quickly . Lind mainly, it was, i knew i was starting to fail, even though i was faking it pretty well. Whitaker since stepping down, tracey and emily have traveled around the country and the world, speaking and preaching about her f. T. D. Or as tracey puts it, telling the story of dementia from the inside out. Lind i was determined to live what i had been preaching for over 30 years; that out of pain comes joy. Im going to face this disease called f. T. D. That id never heard of before, and im going to see what i can do with it. Whitaker i dont know if you are aware of how unique this situation is, that you are in the middle of this decline from dementia and yet, youre so able to articulate what thats like. Lind i am aware of that. I think my curiosity is whats getting me through it. Because otherwise, bill, i i im im just going to lay down and and and and roll up in a ball. Whitaker tracey says she has good days and bad days. Just in our interview, there were moments when she was completely in control and moments when she wasnt. Lind . And im doing some you know, im im im im. I know theres no ingalls do you want help . Lind can you help, please . Ingalls okay. Bruce miller this is the way this very sad illness presents. Whitaker dr. Bruce miller may be the worlds leading expert on frontotemporal dementia. He runs a lab at the university of Californiasan Francisco thats doing cuttingedge research on the two main forms of f. T. D. The speech variant that tracey lind has, and a behavioral variant that attacks personality, judgement and empathy. Dr. Miller pleasure to see you both again. Whitaker on the day we visited dr. Millers clinic, he and his team met with f. T. D. Patient thomas cox and his wife lori. At first glance, thomas seems fine but hes not. Thomas cox ive got f. T. D. Dr. Miller okay, and has that affected you so far . Thomas cox no. Whitaker in fact, lori cox says that, starting a few years ago, thomas lost interest in her, in their son, and in his work so much that he was fired from his job. By now, hes pretty much reduced to looking at photos on his phone. Thomas cox thats bugatti. Lori cox thats our dog. laughs dr. Miller ah. Your dog. Lori cox i can blame the disease. I can say that the disease stole my my husband. Dr. Miller yes. When a family sees someone with this illness, they dont recognize them. This is not the person i married, that i love. This is not my father, or my mother. Whitaker you have said that f. T. D. Attacks people at the very soul of their humanity. Dr. Miller this is profound as anything that can happen to a human being. It robs us of our very essence of our humanity, of who we are. Whitaker bruce miller says because so many cases are first misdiagnosed as mental illness, it takes an average of three years and several expensive brain scans to get a correct diagnosis of f. T. D. Dr. Miller so whether its 20,000 new cases every year, 100,000, 200,000, we still dont know. But in young people with neuro degeneration, frontotemporal dementia is a big one. Whitaker so if you see someone who is suffering dementia at a younger age. Dr. Miller very strong likelihood that its f. T. D. Whitaker dr. Miller showed us this composite image of two of the major degenerative brain diseases. Dr. Miller frontal temporal dementia, shown in blue; alzheimers disease, shown in red. So, very different geography, very different clinical manifestations. Whitaker what does the blue indicate . Dr. Miller the blue indicates is that theres loss of tissue. When we see loss of tissue in that brain region, we know people have lost their interest in life, their drive. They do less, they care less about other people. Whitaker that loss of empathy, miller says, can produce dangerous, impulsive, even criminal behavior, and those with behavioral f. T. D. Are rarely aware that anything has changed. Amy johnson he went from being a caring, doting father and husband, and it just seemed like he flipped a switch off. And he had no idea that he had changed. He had no idea. Whitaker amy johnson and her husband mark married in 2006, settled in the small minnesota town of windom, and now have four young children, three boys and a girl. Four years ago, amy says mark suddenly seemed to stop caring about her and the kids. Amy johnson thats the first time that i really remember thinking to myself, what happened . Where did you go . Whitaker amy recalls a day when she left mark in charge of their sons, then three and two, only to come home and find the boys playing outside, alone, by a busy street, while mark sat inside watching tv, oblivious. On other days, he began to display compulsive behavior she had never seen before. Amy johnson he couldnt stop eating. I started locking the food up. He would walk down to the Grocery Store and buy more. I took his credit card. Hed walk down to the Grocery Store and steal food. Whitaker and these changes that you saw, did you ask him, whats going on . Amy johnson yeah. And he just said, oh, i dont think anythings different, is it . Whitaker it was. Mark began making inappropriate remarks to a female coworker at the company where he worked as a manufacturing engineer. He was fired . Amy johnson uhhuh. And his reaction was, oh, well, i guess, okay. So whats for supper tonight . Whitaker what was your reaction . Amy johnson i was just devastated. I was seven months pregnant at the time, with our daughter. Whitaker with your fourth child. Amy johnson with my fourth child. Whitaker so as this progresses, whats the eventual outcome . Dr. Miller outcome of this is always death. They whitaker always death. Dr. Miller always death. We have no way of intervening yet, to slow the progression. Whitaker as f. T. D. Corrodes the brain, it also eventually causes bodily functions to shut down. Thats what leads to death. But bruce miller is optimistic, pointing to Promising Research both in his lab and funded by n. I. H. Grants to scientists around the country. Dr. Miller suddenly we have interventions and research that are going on, that give me great hope. Whitaker when might you expect a breakthrough . Dr. Miller im hoping in the next five years, that we will have very powerful therapies in certain variants of frontotemporal dementia that may stop it cold. Whitaker tracey lind and Emily Ingalls have no idea whether any breakthrough will come in time to help them. If not, tracey will eventually lose the ability to speak at all, and then, the ability to swallow. Lind the not being able to swallow part; thats whats really frightening. So i try to live in the present moment. Ingalls im not very good at living in the moment, so i worry a lot about the future. Lind do you worry about taking care of me . Ingalls yeah. I worry about taking care of you. Sure. Lind whats going to be the hardest part . Ingalls i think the hardest part is going to be the loss of the relationship. Whitaker has emily told you this before . Lind no. I dont think so. Whitaker as you can see, caregivers suffer as much as patients. For months, amy johnson kept mark at home, even as she mothered four small children and held a fulltime job. But his symptoms got worse and worse. When did it become clear to you that you you had to put him in a facility . Amy johnson i went to an appointment with a psychiatric nurse practitioner. And she said, i think its time for you to look for a different place. Because now, when he thinks of something, the part of his brain that tells him thats a bad idea doesnt work anymore. Whitaker when we met him, mark johnson was in an assisted living facility about an hour away from home. He had gained nearly 100 pounds due to compulsive eating. Amy has since moved him to another facility, where he needs oneonone care. Amy says its costing her 13,000 a month. Out of pocket . Amy johnson out of pocket. He would be devastated to know that thats where his Retirement Savings are going, and that theyre not going to his family. Whitaker crippling costs are common for f. T. D. Families, and its often tough to find a facility to care for patients like mark johnson. The assisted living industry is not set up for sixfootthree 40yearolds. Hello, mark. Amy johnson hows it going . This is bill. Mark johnson hi. Whitaker how are you . Very nice to meet you. Amy visits mark as often as she can, and invited us to come along one afternoon. He told us hed just like to go home. Do you think you need help . Mark johnson no. Whitaker so you unders you understand why youre here . Mark johnson no. Whitaker think youd be okay at home . Mark johnson yeah. laughs whitaker i think amy thinks. I dont want to put words in her mouth, but i think she thinks this is the best place for you right now. Mark johnson okay. laughs whitaker after another minute, mark said, all right, see ya, and we left him. Amy johnson big hug. Mark johnson okay. Whitaker its clearly painful for amy to see what f. T. D. Has done to her husband, and to know what it will do. Amy johnson and they gave him two to five years to live. And whitaker two to five years . Amy johnson two to five years. Whitaker so how are you doing now . Amy johnson it depends on the day. 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As we first reported this spring, his abstract canvases, which often deal with complex social and political issues, hang in major museums around the world, and on the walls of big collectors and some small ones, like me. Bradfords art may look like paintings, but theres hardly any paint on them. Theyre made out of layers and layers of paper, which he tears, glues, powerwashes and sands, in a style all his own. When he began making art in his 30s, bradford couldnt afford expensive paint, so he started experimenting with endpapers, that are used for styling hair. He got the idea while working as a hair stylist in his moms beauty shop in south los angeles. He was broke, struggling, and didnt sell his First Painting until he was nearly 40. I heard a story that when you sold your first artwork in 2001, you called up your mom. Do you remember what you said to her . Bradford i said, girl, i think i found a way out of the beauty shop. laughs girl, i think i found a way out of the beauty shop. Yeah. Yeah, because i had no idea how i was going to stop being a hair stylist, because thats really the only thing that i knew. I didnt have a problem with being a hair stylist, but its all i knew. Cooper its incredible to think that 2001 is when you first sold a work, and now. Bradford i still sell works. Cooper yeah, you sure do. laughs bradford i sure do. This is the top. Cooper his First Painting sold for 5,000. Now, they can sell for more than 10 million. This new one was bought by the broad museum in los angeles. They have nine other bradfords in their collection. One, two, three. Cooper its called deep blue. Its 12 feet high, 50 feet long, and took a full day to install. Thats all right. That is all right. Cooper none of those colors you see are paint. Its all paper layered on canvas. Its abstract, but not entirely. See those lines that form a grid . Its a street map of the watts neighborhood in los angeles. The colored balls show where properties were damaged in 1965 after six days of violent civil unrest, protests over Police Brutality and racial inequality. We first saw the painting nearly a year ago, when bradford had just started working on it in his studio in south los angeles. Hed already made the map of watts out of bathroom caulking. The following month, when we stopped by again, hed laid down 14 layers of colored paper and covered it all up with a layer of black. So, theres a map underneath here . Bradford yes. Cooper of watts . Bradford uhhuh. All these little points are what was looted, what was destroyed. So, i kind of start from a map, and then, on top of it, i think i lay art history and my imagination, all three. Cooper bradford uses household tools to make his paintings. He likes to buy everything at home depot. Bradford my motto was, if home depot didnt have it, Mark Bradford didnt use it. And cooper laughs thats thats your thats your motto . Bradford thats my motto. That was my motto. Cooper to this day, is that. . Bradford to this to this day. Cooper building up the layers of paper on the canvas is just the beginning of his process. He then starts to peel, cut and sand them down, which can take months. Its like an archeological dig. Bradford it is like an archeological dig. Its like history. Im creating my own archaeological or psychol. Psychological digs. Sometimes, when im digging on my own painting, im asking myself, well, exactly what are you digging for . Where do you want to go, child . Oh, see, look. Look at that. See . Now, see, that i like. Cooper a lot of people look at a abstract painting and think, its squiggles, its torn paper, i dont understand it. Bradford yeah, thats true. But for me, those squiggles and torn paper gives me a space to kind of unpack things, like the watts riots. Im grappling with how i feel about that subject and that material. I do grapple with things. I grapple with things personally, and, you know, racially, and politically. What does it mean to be me . Cooper Mark Bradford has been grappling with that question in his art for the last 18 years from making paintings out of street posters like those offering predatory loans in low income neighborhoods; to creating works that address h. I. V. aids, racism and the complexity of american history. Hes 57 years old now, and, at sixfooteight, stands out in a crowd. He still lives in south los angeles, where he grew up. When he was eight, he says he began to get bullied by neighborhood kids. Bradford that was the first time i felt different. That was the first time i was aware of my sensitivity. Thats the first time someone said, oh, youre. You. You. Youre a sissy. I definitely knew that i had to learn to navigate in a more cautious way so that i could survive. I just never had a problem being me. Cooper so, even though people, they were calling you sissy, it didnt make you want to try to change yourself . Bradford not really, no. Not really. I just didnt want to get my ass whooped. Cooper he was raised by his mother, janice banks, who owned her own beauty salon. Thats where bradford would head every day after school. Bradford i knew that i had to find a way to get across the schoolyard. I knew that my mother was always going to be there once i got across the schoolyard. And maybe, maybe i was in the hair salon every day, watching women get across the schoolyard. laughs i would hear their stories. I would watch them go through, and i just thought, if they can do it, i most certainly can do it. Cooper Mark Bradford started working in the salon as a teenager, eventually becoming a hair stylist. It was a safe place, where he could be himself. But that feeling disappeared in 1981 when his friends began dying from aids. Bradford i knew a storm was coming. I knew that in the gut. I knew that. And people were just dying. Thats what it felt like to me, at 18 years old. I just was thinking, how are we going to make it through . Cooper did you think you would make it through . Bradford no. No. I didnt think id make it through. Cooper thinking he didnt have a future, he didnt plan for one. But when he was nearly 30, he took art classes at a junior college, and he says it clicked. Bradford it was the reading and learning about different scholars and feminism and deconstructing modernism and all. I just oh, man, this is im really into this. Im not exactly sure what it is, but im it just. Yeah. Cooper and youd still work at the hair salon . Bradford oh, yeah. Every day. Cooper and so, youd be studying while at the hair salon . Bradford oh, absolutely. They i put the book in their lap and said, girl, read that back to me. Cooper he won a scholarship to the California Institute of the arts but struggled to make money as an artist. When he was 39, he finally had a breakthrough. Bradford i was working on a head. Cooper working on a head . Bradford working on a head, working on a. Cooper at the beauty salon. Bradford . Beauty salon, yeah. Because i was still working the hair salon, anderson. I told you that. Cooper i just didnt know that terminology. Bradford i was hooking it up. Right, late at night. I was tired as hell, too. And just endpapers fell on the floor. And i looked down, i thought, oh, theyre translucent. Oh. Oh, i could use these. Cooper endpapers are small, rectangular tissues used to make permanent waves in hair. Bradford began burning the papers edges and lining them up into grids he glued onto bed sheets. Bradford i knew i was onto something. I knew this was bridging. This material came from a sight outside of the paint store. I think, early on, i was trying to weave these two sides of who i was together, the art world and the sights that i had come from, the life that i had led. I didnt want to leave any of it beh. I didnt want to edit out anything. Cooper private collectors began snapping up his endpaper paintings, and his career took off. applause he is now a celebrity in the art world. applause his gallery openings are star studded events. How are you . Cooper at the latest one in los angeles, beyonce and jayz, who own several bradfords, stopped in. The ten paintings in this exhibition sold out before the gallery doors opened. Bradford look how nice this is. Wow, its gorgeous Cooper Bradford and his partner of more than 20 years, allan dicastro, are committed to using contemporary art and their own money to revitalize the neighborhood bradford grew up in. In 2014, they opened art practice with Eileen Harris norton, the first collector to buy bradfords work. Its a nonprofit complex of buildings that includes a gallery, lecture spaces, and his mothers old beauty salon. Bradford this is the last hair salon that my mom worked in, and then i took it over from her. It was in the 90s. It was called foxy hair. Cooper they turned foxy hair into a center for young adults transitioning out of foster care. Bradford i would run down the block in here and buy myself whatever i needed to put back on the hair. Cooper but we were surprised to learn that Mark Bradford still styles hair. He does it for some of his former clients from the beauty shop who are also among his closest friends. When you look around, does his art make sense to you . Cleo jackson i. It does. Its like a map in outer space. laughs Danielle Wright no. I mean, i look at it. Its beautiful, but i dont really. Lynette powell get it. Female voices get it. Yeah. Powell he gave me something from his studio a long time ago, and i put it in my garage. laughs bradford she did. Cooper wow. Bradford and i told her. Powell and i put it in my garage. Bradford i said, girl. Powell this is before he got, like. Bradford okay. Powell . Popular, i guess. And, yeah, and its. And its all torn up. And this guy was like, you know, you have Something Like a mona lisa. im like, for real . laughs bradford yall wrong for that. Powell i dont see it. Im. Cooper you dont see it . Powell i dont. But i like how you give a little insight of, like, whats going on in our community. I know that much about your art. So, that much i really like. Cooper bradfords latest work continues to focus on difficult and controversial issues. This painting, which is prominently displayed in the Los Angeles County museum of art, is called 150 portrait tone, and was made in response to the 2016 Fatal Police Shooting of Philando Castile during a traffic stop in minnesota. Diamond reynolds he was trying to get out his i. D. In his wallet out his pocket, and he let the officer know. Cooper castiles girlfriend, diamond reynolds, livestreamed the incident. Bradford was so haunted by her words, he made them into this painting. Diamond reynolds please dont tell me this, lord. Please, jesus, dont tell me that hes gone. Cooper its really the conversation that his girlfriend is having. Bradford with multiple people, which i was fascinated by. Cooper why were you fascinated by it . Bradford how composed she was. She was having a conversation with her daughter in the backseat, with philando, who was passing away, with god, with us, facebook, and with the policeman, all simultaneously. It was visual, and textual, and heartbreaking, and heroic, and strong all at the same time. Cooper in another major new work, bradford turned his gaze to the civil war. Its called picketts charge, and its a reimagining of a pivotal Union Victory at the battle of gettysburg. It was commissioned by the smithsonians Hirschhorn Museum in washington, d. C. Bradford used as his starting point blownup photos of a 19th century panoramic painting of picketts charge, a painting which offers a romanticized view of the confederacy. He then added layers of paper and cords over it, then carefully gouged, shredded and ripped it apart. Bradford they almost feel like lacerations. Cooper uhhuh. Bradford almost scarring. Cooper uhhuh. Bradford thats what those feel like. And a little bit like bullet wounds. Like youre really. Cooper uhhuh. Yeah. Bradford . Punctured. Cooper its a 360degree painting that raises many questions in bradfords mind, particularly about how we look at history. Its looking at it through a different lens. Bradford yes. Thats the feeling that i wanted you to have, that history was laying on top of it, that. That. Gouging into it, erasing it, bits of it showing. Its kind of me kind of revising it in a way. Cooper so, is this a more accurate representation of history . Bradford i dont really believe historys ever fully accurate. Cooper its acknowledging that . Bradford its acknowledging the gaps, the things we dont know. Cooper so many people have come to see picketts charge, the hirshhorn has extended the exhibition for three more years. Bradford recently opened a show in china, and is working on new paintings for shows in london and new york. Do you worry about the vagaries of the art world . What is popular today, 20 years from now . Bradford oh, no, no, no, no. I wouldnt have. No. I have never. Cooper i mean, art has value because people believe it has value. Bradford i. No, i think art has value because it has value. Im not going to wait for somebody else to tell me my work has value. I certainly wasnt going to wait on people to tell me i had value. Id probably still be waiting. I just. It has value because i think it has value. And then, if other people get on the value. 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