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📚 Minor Black Figures by: Brandon Taylor

A newcomer to New York, Wyeth is a Black painter who grew up in the South and is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. It's challenging. Gallery shows displaying bad art. Pretentious artists jockeying for attention. The gossip and the backstabbing. While his...

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A newcomer to New York, Wyeth is a Black painter who grew up in the South and is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. It's challenging. Gallery shows displaying bad art. Pretentious artists jockeying for attention. The gossip and the backstabbing. While his part-time work for an art restorer is engaging, Wyeth suffers from artist's block with his painting and he is finding it increasingly difficult to spark his creativity.

When he meets Keating, a white former seminarian who left the priesthood, Wyeth begins to reconsider how to observe the world, in the process facing questions about the conflicts between Black and white art, the white gaze on the Black body, and the compromises we make - in art and in life.

As he did so adeptly in Booker finalist Real Life and the bestselling The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor brings to life in Minor Black Figures a fascinating set of characters, this time in the competitive art world, and the lives they lead with each and on their own. Minor Black Figures is an involving and tender portrait of friendship, creativity, and the connections between them.

From the Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author: a perceptive novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity

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A little bit of mixed modes today:

Grabbed a blue bike at 4:43pm and rode to the Apple store in East Cambridge from Kendall.

At 4:57pm I got the iPad mini I ordered for Josh and grabbed another blue bike riding to Park St to catch the red line train.

At 5:10pm I was waiting for the train.

Literally no other mode of transportation could be this efficient and easy around the city.

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北京地鐵 Beijing Subway 🚇P1～P2: 積水潭站D口 Exit D of Jishuitan Station
P3: 12號綫和平西橋站 Heping Xiqiao Station of Line 12
P4～P7: 12號綫蘇州橋站 Suzhou Qiao Station of Line 12
P8: 16號綫蘇州街站 Suzhou Jie Station of Line 12
P9～P12: 16號綫萬壽寺站 Wanshou Si Station of Line 16
P13: 2號綫復興門站 Fuxing Men Station of Line 2
P14: 1號綫復興門站 Fuxing Men Station of Line 1
P15: 復興門站坡道走廊 Ramped Corridor of Fuxing Men Station
P16: 10號綫車道溝站 Chedaogou Station of Line 10

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