Friday Notes: Beyonce Renaissance Visuals, Lil Wayne, Wes Anderson and more
Music
Beyoncé Shopping New Renaissance Visual Album That Was Shot in Secret By Nadia Lee Cohen
ANOTHER RENAISSANCE. The long-awaited visual album of Beyoncé’s latest, Renaissance, may be one step closer to fruition, and it may be in no small part thanks to an artist. That artist is potentially Nadia Lee Cohen, whose film is being shopped around to studios, according to Above the Line. Cohen was the subject of a 2022 solo show at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in Los Angeles that featured photographs of her as heavily done-up personas.
https://abovetheline.com/2023/08/31/beyonce-renaissance-visual-album-nadia-lee-cohen/
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