"Pope.L, an uncompromising conceptual and performance artist who explored themes of race, class and what he called have-not-ness, and who was best known for crawling the length of Broadway in a Superman costume, died on Saturday at his home in Chicago. He was 68."
"By 2001, when he began The Great White Way: 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street, Broadway, New York, as the performance was ultimately titled, Pope.L was already well known in the art world for a career that comprised every medium from writing to photography, from painting to sculpture, and from performance to straight theater. His abiding themes were the intersecting difficulties and distinctions that he experienced as a Black American and a son of the working class."
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