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The Radical Portraits of Amy Sherald

Nothing looks quite like an Amy Sherald painting. In each of her portraits, the form for which she is best known, an impeccably painted figure stands smack in the middle of a slab of color. But ,”  is on view through October 26. A selection of images from the exhibition appears below. 

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