Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night

"This editor has a predilection for painting, and especially for the enigmatic portraits of fictional people by British painter Lynette-Yiadom Boyakye. Her exhibit at Tate Modern has been keenly anticipated this year, and her work may appeal to poetry lovers too; words take the place of paint when she finds they express ideas more forthrightly. Support Five Books Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount . Celebrated German painter Gerhard Richter’s exhibit Painting After All at the Metropolitan Museum in New York was open for all of nine days before lockdown hit. But the exhibition catalogue makes for an important entry in any reference library on painting, given his standing as one of the last centuries most celebrated practitioners. Finally, a shout out to Contemporary Art Issue , which I first signalled in a recent interview on figurative painting today . I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of their first volume, ‘ Apologia’ , which launches soon and looks like a fanzine for figurative art junkies."