The Artists We Lost in 2020, in Their Words
Dec. 22, 2020
It’s always difficult to lose a favorite actor or a beloved musician. But in 2020, a year of crisis upon crisis, some of those losses were especially painful, brought on by a pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of people in the United States alone. The artists on this list could help us better understand the time we’re living through, or at least help us get through it with a smile or cathartic cry. Here is a tribute to them, in their own words.
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Chadwick BosemanCredit...Magdalena Wosinska for The New York Times