Wavy Wednesday

My very first Puff & Paint at Hippie & French went beautifully 💕💗 Thank you to everybody who came to support!! The entire evening was such a vibe and it wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work of the team. You all are the best! Cheers to many more 🥂🍃✨💗

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In an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS’ “60 Minutes”, painter Amy Sherald spoke about her decision to pull out of her solo exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery after the museum considered removing her painting of a Black transgender Statue of Liberty, titled Trans Forming Liberty.

“There were conversations about the work being censored,” Sherald told Cooper. “The show is ‘American Sublime.’ It was a whole narrative, and a trans woman is a part of that narrative, for me.”

Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/amy-sherald-talks-canceled-smithsonian-show-60-minutes-1234757994/