Former New York art critic Steven Vincent was in his Greenwich Village apartment on 9-11. He watched the towers fall. “I knew right away my country was at war,” he said. “I’m too old to enlist, so I thought I would use my writing talents.” So the art critic turned to blogging and investigative journalism. He followed his close friend, the painter Steve Mumford, to Iraq. On July 31st, in a New York Times Op-Ed, Vincent wrote that Basra’s police force had been infiltrated by Shiite militants who were carrying out assassinations. Two days later, Steven Vincent was dead. His body found on a Basra street. In this radio diary, artist Steve Mumford remembers Steven Vincent.
Guests:
Steve Mumford, New York based painter, and author of the forthcoming, “Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraq”
