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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon @cultured_mag featured fearless artist @asherald and master musician @jonbatiste for its Winter 2024 Artists on Artists issue. Photo by @danascruggs.

Image and caption reposted from @cultured_mag This winter, CULTURED presents our inaugural Artists on Artists issue. An ode to unfettered creativity, bold experimentation, and collaboration, this edition includes a trio of cover conversations between figures—from filmmakers to painters and musicians—who are committed to illuminating our strange, uncertain moment...

It’s been a busy year for the history-making painter and musician. Amy Sherald just opened “American Sublime,” her mid-career survey and largest exhibition yet, at the @sfmoma; while Jon Batiste returned to his classical roots with his recent album “Beethoven Blues,” which presents modern renditions of the canonical composer’s works.

Despite their sweeping impacts on contemporary culture, both artists—shot by @danascruggs in Sherald’s New Jersey studio—are careful to protect the delicate filament, that “pure thing,” at the heart of their work. “When you’re in that flow state, sometimes you forget how you got to the end result. I feel like a vessel. I work hard so I can then be in the moment like a kid,” Batiste tells Sherald. “It’s like a trance,” the painter adds. “The ideas come, and I do what I’m told.”

To read the full conversation between Amy Sherald and Jon Batiste and [order] your copy of the Artists on Artists issue, head to the link in bio.

Amy wears a dress by @gabrielahearst, earrings by @davidyurman, and bracelets and a ring by @vancleefarpels. Jon wears a suit, shirt, and tie by @ysl; ring by @cartier; and shoes by @louboutinworld. Additional jewelry is musician’s own.

Editor-in-Chief: @sarahgharrelson

Photography: @danascruggs

Styling for Amy Sherald: @carlocatastrophe

Styling for Jon Batiste: @jasonrembert

Casting for Batiste: @specialprojectsmedia

Hair for Sherald: @myssmonique

Hair for Batiste: Jenna Robinson

Makeup for Sherald: @laramiemakeup with @dayone__studio

Grooming for Batiste: Jesse Lindholm

Production: @missdionnenyc

#AmySherald #JonBatiste #BlackArtists #CulturedMagazine #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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"CONFUSION AT ITS FINEST" 15" x 20"

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Amy Sherald, "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it", 2019

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… interview for interview …

a conversation about art between amy sherald and thom browne for interview magazine.

http://bit.ly/3qeKnVG

@asherald @InterviewMag #thombrowne #amysherald #interviewmagazine

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Happy International Women’s Day. Portrait of Amy Sherald. . . . #internationalwomensday #amysherald #jasonthielke #portraitartist #denverartist #myart #instaartist #lineart #newcontemporaryart #aart #womeninart #womanartist #blackandwhiteart (at Denver, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMLQfGOFWRf/?igshid=wurmqgwr0jlv

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Amy Sherald @asherald 🙏🏾 “OUR humanity is bound up in HERS, for we can only be human together.”[sic]~Desmond Tutu 🤍🤍🤍 • @vanityfair Presenting Breonna Taylor for Vanity Fair’s September issue, “The Great Fire.” Five months have passed since police killed Breonna Taylor in her own home, a violent crime that our September issue guest editor Ta-Nehisi Coates ascribes to a belief in Black people as a disaster, as calamity. “I don’t know how else to comprehend the jackboots bashing in Breonna Taylor’s door and spraying her home with bullets, except the belief that they were fighting some Great Fire—demonic, unnatural, inhuman.” Coates chose the "The Great Fire" as the theme for the issue, which assembles activists, artists, and writers to offer a portrait of hope in a world where the possibility of a legitimate anti-racist majority is emerging for the first time in American history. “Something is happening,” writes @tanehisipcoates, “and I think to understand it, we must better understand the nature of this Great Fire.” For his cover story, Coates tells Breonna’s story through the words of her mother. Also in the issue: an oral history of the historic days after George Floyd's death; a portfolio of creatives and visionaries who capture the spirit—and urgency—of the moment; director @ava DuVernay's conversation with revolutionary Angela Davis; and much more. Read “The Great Fire” at the link in @vanityfair’s bio now. Painting by Amy Sherald (@asherald). - Check out the link in our bio to see actions you can take to support efforts to hold Breonna Taylor’s killers accountable. #SupportBlackArt #AmySherald #BreonnaTaylor #WeAreStillSayingYourName #SayHerName https://www.instagram.com/p/CEWoDANBPzO/?igshid=1mho0k1c8qbzr

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Five-story mural by Amy Sherald in Philadelphia. Painted summer 2019 with support from Mural Arts. Portrayed is North Philly resident Najee Spencer-Young.