How Henry Taylor Transformed the Way We Look at Ourselves
The figurative painter, a favorite of Barack Obama’s and Kendrick Lamar’s, has made portraiture the dominant mode of art in our era.
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The figurative painter, a favorite of Barack Obama’s and Kendrick Lamar’s, has made portraiture the dominant mode of art in our era.
A woman had never before been a hip-hop star, an actress, a producer and the face of mainstream America all at once.
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While the premise is to explore Hendricks’s connection to the Frick’s collection, the effect of the museum’s survey is to change the way we view those same paintings.
“He was an absolute gem of a person, full of life, love, laughter, curiosity, integrity, and joy," wrote Singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens about his late partner Evans Richardson IV.