Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Interviewed in New Yorker

June 12th, 2017

Painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is profiled in the New Yorker this week, spotlighting the artist’s dramatic work on view at the New Museum this summer, and her parallel work as a writer.  “I don’t paint about the writing or write about the painting,” she says of her work. “It’s just the opposite, in fact: I write about the things I can’t paint and paint the things I can’t write about.”

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