Isaac Julien on Frederick Douglass: 'It's an extraordinary story'

The British artist talks about his series of tableaux vivants focused on the trailblazing abolitionist who is more relevant than everStanding in the heart of Highland Park in Rochester, New York, the British artist and film-maker Isaac Julien found himself looking up at the Frederick Douglass monument – the first statue in the country to memorialize an African American. It led to an epiphany.“I thought, my God, this man, who was born in 1818, is extraordinary,” said Julien. &ld