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The Overlooked Work Of Ernie Barnes, The Athlete Turned Celebrity Artist

VISUAL Posted: July 1, 2019 5:00 am

Barnes, a U.S. football player turned artist who did such things as “creating album covers for Marvin Gaye, receiving a commissioned by Kanye West and being named the official artist of the 1984 Olympics,” still isn’t really part of art history, curators of a new retrospective claim – and that’s what they’re trying to correct, of course. (But it’s not every day that the artist’s professional American football helmet is included in the artist’s show.)- The Guardian (UK)

VISUAL Published: 06.27.19

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 06.27.19

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