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Accra Shepp

Accra Shepp is a New York–based artist and writer. His images have been exhibited worldwide and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other institutions. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the artist’s book Atlas (in the collection of the Whitney Museum and the New York Public Library), and Windbook, an artist’s-book installation at the National Library of Luxembourg. He is working on a photo-based project titled “The Covid Journals.” (September 2020)

An Interview with Archie Shepp

My father, the saxophonist Archie Shepp, was a revolutionary, both musically and politically.

September 29, 2020

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