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Beauty is a Rare Thing, Brian Alfred’s sixth solo exhibition with Miles McEnery Gallery, brings together two distinct bodies of work by the artist. For the first series, Alfred documented his recent travels from Osaka to Brooklyn, and the Dominican Republic to the West Village. Snapshots of personal moments shape an exhibition of serene vignettes.

The accompanying suite of paintings, installed in an adjacent gallery space, is comprised of nine portraits of contemporary musicians. Spanning genres from electronic to folk, the paintings celebrate the power of music in shaping the world around …