Artist Dread Scott has spent nearly four decades making what he calls revolutionary art to propel history forward. In this Roborant Review conversation, he talks with Hugh Leeman about art's role in social movements, the value of the "professional troublemaker," and why capitalism — not the flag — is what he's really interrogating. He revisits What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?, the 1988 installation that drew death threats and hasn't been shown in the U.S. in twenty years, and previews two new commissions for The Body Politic at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Defending the Flag, a live performance with a uniformed guard and a replica M4 carbine, and Life, Death, America, a fifteen-by-thirty-six-foot mural of graphite body prints. A frank exchange on courage, luck, fatherhood, and what art can sti ...