Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has a solo exhibit touring now called “Fly In League with the Night”. Her portraits gave me a lot to think about.
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Works Cited
Mitter, Siddhartha. “A Portraitist Whose Subjects Are All in Her Head.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 16 Dec. 2020, nytimes.com/2020/12/16/arts/design/lynette-yiadom-boakye.html.
Smith, Zadie, and Calvin Tomkins. “Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Imaginary Portraits.” The New Yorker, 12 June 2017, newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/lynette-yiadom-boakyes-imaginary-portraits.
West, Shearer. Portraiture. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette. “Artist Statement.” Callaloo, vol. 37, no. 4, 2014, pp. 903–906., doi:10.1353/cal.2014.0174.
Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, et al. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Fly in League with the Night. Tate Publishing, 2020.


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