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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Niece Cousin Kin Look How Long it's Been

Sept 24, 2019 – June 1, 2021
19 E 66th St, New York, NY 10065, United States

“This is painting that goes way beyond the brute fact of a body,” the novelist Zadie Smith wrote of Henry Taylor’s work, in 2018. “He puts himself in the way of people.” Poised, impromptu, and alive with immediacy, Taylor’s portraits and panoramas pay homage to his community, while touching on American contemporary politics and, inevitably, social adversity. Inspired by the artist’s recent travels to Senegal, “Niece Cousin Kin Look How Long its Been” pulls the African diaspora into Taylor’s inner circle. —E.C.

Portrait of Deana Lawson (2014) Henry Taylor © Henry Taylor, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo