The New Yorker

Kadir Nelson’s “Major Taylor, a Champion Who Led the Way”

For the cover of the June 2, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson features Marshall W. (Major) Taylor leading a parade of bicyclists from eras past and present. “I wanted to pay tribute to the most ...
The New Yorker

Kadir Nelson’s “Messenger”

For the cover of the February 3, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson captured the emotion he experienced when, walking downtown, he startled a flock of pigeons. “I felt that a painting of birds in ...
CBS News

Artist Kadir Nelson's evocative response to the pandemic

"I think what's in my head is the idea, or the feeling, that I want it to have," said artist Kadir Nelson. "It has to have an emotion?" asked correspondent Lee Cowan. "Yeah, yeah. I think that's what ...
Publishers Weekly

Q & A with Kadir Nelson

Award-winning author and artist Kadir Nelson continues to build on his already storied career with his latest book, Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game, a 112-page companion to 2008’s We ...
Berkshire Eagle

Kadir Nelson painted the human drama we collectively lived through during the pandemic

STOCKBRIDGE — A fist raised high in the air, a foot planted firmly on the step in front of her, the woman at the center of "American Uprising" — wearing a T-shirt with an image of George Floyd and an ...