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Nov 2018
39m 9s

Kimberly Drew On Making Art Radically Ac...

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Writer, art activist and cultural curator Kimberly Drew joins Stretch & Bobbito to discuss her earliest art memories, how she found inspiration in Kehinde Wiley's paintings and why working for The Metropolitan Museum of Art was great, but "exhausting." 
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