Art in Motion
Sculptor Hobart Brown knew how to prove a point, and create a spectacle. “He was sort of like Barnum & Bailey, a PR genius, a total character,” says Theresa Segreti of the American Visionary Art Museum. When the city of Ferndale, Calif., wrote a parking ticket for his son’s tricycle in 1969, Brown slapped on two more wheels and some scrap metal, transforming the trike into an odd-shaped pentacycle, which as “art” was exempt from the ticket. Soon, a rival…

