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Monday Notes: Henry Taylor, Sports Roundup, Sneakers, Beyonce's Renaissance Movie Trailer and more

Henry Taylor's 'B Side' retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum on October 4, while Beyoncé drops the long-awaited trailer for her Renaissance concert film.

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Henry Taylor

The Los Angeles–based painter Henry Taylor rejects the portrait label, opting instead to reveal the full cultural forces — personal and societal — at play in every subject he captures.

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Arts in Bushwick: Bushwick Open Studios 2023

One of Brooklyn's biggest art events, Bushwick Open Studios opens over a hundred creative spaces to the public for a free community art tour.

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

Vice Media files for bankruptcy as the digital media era reshapes the industry, while Kehinde Wiley's art is everywhere—and Ghana's only skatepark fights to survive.

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Spring Valley, NY native Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah rose from SUNY Albany to the New York Times bestseller list with Friday Black—and he's just getting started.

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Damien Davis

Raised in Phoenix and based in Brooklyn, Damien Davis unpacks visual representations of Blackness through craft, design, and digital production—his work has shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA.

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Tuesday Notes: HBCUs, Fear of God, Young Workers x Remote work, Harry Belafonte, Selloane Moeti, and more

Harry Belafonte's passing marks the end of an era in music and civil rights activism. Tuesday's notes also cover HBCUs' gender gap, Fear of God, and the remote work debate.

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Selloane Moeti

Selloane Moeti is a painter and performance artist from eMagabheni, KwaZulu-Natal. Her work merges visual storytelling with performance in bold and singular ways.

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Barkley L. Hendricks

Philadelphia-born painter Barkley L. Hendricks spent 50 years redefining Black portraiture. His Jack Shainman Gallery retrospective finally gives the work its full context.

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Sakhile Mhlongo

Sakhile Mhlongo paints everyday South African life onto fabric at monumental scale — his upcoming shows at Jack Bell and Goodman Gallery are essential viewing.

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Winfred Rembert

At 51, Winfred Rembert began carving his memories of Jim Crow Georgia and a near-lynching into tooled leather paintings. Hauser & Wirth's 'All of Me' brings 40 works together.

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Saturday Notes: NBA Playoffs, Mannie Fresh, Basquiat x Warhol Exhbition

The 2023 NBA Playoffs begin Saturday. Mannie Fresh becomes the latest hip-hop producer to sell his catalog, while the Basquiat x Warhol exhibition opens in Paris.