Monday Notes: Kehinde Wiley, Vice Media files for Bankruptcy, 🇬🇭's first skatepark

Here are your personalized Uristocrat Notes for Monday, May 15th, 2023.  Some of your headlines for today:

• Sports Roundup: Tatum drops 51, Lakers in the Conference Finals, Victor Wembanyama road to the NBA
• Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere, all at once
• Is This The End for Ghana’s First Skatepark?
• VICE Media files for Bankruptcy

Today's Events

• Liverpool @ Leicester City, Monday, May 15, 2023 at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network
• Converse x TURBODRK,  Chuck 70 Laceless, releasing Tuesday, May 16 at 10 a.m. ET on SNKRs
• Nike Dunk Low Mica Green, releasing Tuesday, May 16 at 10 a.m. ET on SNKRs

Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere, all at once

Kehinde Wiley was already well into his influential art career when his portrait of Barack Obama — arms crossed, perched on a chair amid brilliant foliage — was unveiled in 2018. But there’s no doubt it changed the artist’s life.

Here’s one way he describes the shift: Now, should he ever show up at the bank and realize he’s forgotten his ID — which hasn’t happened yet, but still — he could say: “You know that portrait of Obama? I’m that guy, and I didn’t bring my ID, so if you could just Google that…”

Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere, all at once - New York Amsterdam News

Kehinde Wiley was already well into his influential art career when his portrait of Barack Obama — arms crossed, perched on a chair amid brilliant foliage — was unveiled in 2018. But there’s no doubt it changed the artist’s life.

New York Amsterdam NewsJOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer

Vice Media to Sell Itself as It Files for Bankruptcy

Vice Media to Sell Itself as It Files for Bankruptcy

A group of creditors, including Soros Fund Management and Fortress, agreed to buy the former digital news darling for about $225 million.

The Wall Street JournalDave Sebastian

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Vice Media’s bankruptcy filing shows its biggest creditor is Fortress Group, owed about $475 million. But a wide range of tech and media companies are also listed as unsecured creditors, including Salesforce, Asana, Oracle, Amazon Web Services, HBO and Workday. The biggeset unsecured creditor is…

The InformationMartin Peers

Sports Roundup: Tatum drops 51, Lakers in the Conference Finals, Victor Wembanyama road to the NBA

Sports Roundup: Tatum drops 51, Lakers in the Conference Finals, Victor Wembanyama road to the NBA

Today’s Events * Liverpool @ Leicester City, Monday, May 15, 2023 at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network NBA conference finals picks: Will the Lakers continue to shock the world? NBA conference finals picks: Will the Lakers continue to shock the world?The NBA is down to its final four. Who

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Kith Summer 2023 Campaign

Kith Summer 2023 Campaign

The campaign for our Kith Summer 2023 Collection features Adrien Brody and is set in Puglia, Italy. This season’s campaign includes a film titled, Solo Noi. The first delivery of Kith Summer 2023 releases this Friday, May 19th, at all Kith shops, 11AM CET on EU.Kith.com, 11AM

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Is This The End for Ghana’s First Skatepark?

On April 30, a contractor alongside 30 workers stormed Ghana’s Freedom Skatepark, demanding to build a wall on the premises. According to the contractor, the initial land owner who leased the land to the Freedom SkatePark team did it under illegal terms. The skatepark officials managed to legally hold them off that day.

On May 6, the workers came again. This time they were able to erect a wall, using violent threats according to reports. This development has sent a frisson of hopelessness throughout Ghana’s youth and cultural communities. Further, it has perplexed Sandy Alibo, the founder of the park. The land was leased to the Freedom Skatepark for 10 years, and the amount was fully paid by the Surf Ghana collective.

Is This The End for Ghana’s First Skatepark?

Locked in a land dispute, the future of Freedom Skatepark hangs in the balance. We spoke to the park’s founder, Sandy Alibo, who is now in a struggle to keep the first skatepark in West Africa from shuttering.

OkayAfricaEsther Owusua Appiah-Fei