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Bronze Public Sculpture by Kehinde Wiley Heads to St. Louis

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 2, 2022March 3, 2022

The piece will be installed at the new campus of Doorways, a nonprofit that helps individuals living with HIV/AIDS.

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Obama Portraits Tour Adds New Stops In San Francisco and Boston

by Hakim Bishara February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

The paintings were set to return to Washington, DC, but will instead go to the de Young Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Looking at Kehinde Wiley and Thomas Gainsborough Side by Side

Avatar photo by Caroline Ellen Liou October 10, 2021October 11, 2021

It is perhaps no surprise that Wiley’s oeuvre is a favorite among curators seeking to inject new relevance into their collection of European masters.

Posted inArt

Stained Glass Portrait by Kehinde Wiley Lights Up a UK Cathedral

by Cassie Packard June 3, 2021June 3, 2021

Wiley’s stained glass panels swap out the religious figures for contemporary Black subjects.

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Kehinde Wiley Seizes the Throne

by David Carrier February 15, 2020February 14, 2020

Wiley shows us that a Black man can indeed take the place of Napoleon.

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Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley’s Portraits of the Obamas Get a National Tour

by Hakim Bishara January 23, 2020

Starting in June 2021, the official portraits of Michelle and Barack Obama will leave the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC to tour five cities across the country.

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Kehinde Wiley, Wangechi Mutu, and Kara Walker Upstage the Monuments Debate

Avatar photo by Ulrich Baer January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

With recent monumental commissions, the artists focus on the imagination’s role in accounting for the past.

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Simone Leigh, Wangechi Mutu, Kehinde Wiley, and Vinnie Bagwell In the Running for New Central Park Memorial

by Hakim Bishara October 3, 2019October 3, 2019

The artists were selected as finalists to replace a statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th-century doctor who conducted violent surgeries on enslaved Black women.

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In Times Square, Kehinde Wiley Unveils a Massive Monument to Black Identity

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber September 27, 2019

Wiley is contributing his own public monument to American history, which will later join 10 Confederate sculptures in Richmond, Virginia.

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Trump Satirizes Kehinde Wiley’s Obama Portrait to Fundraise 2020 Reelection Bid

Avatar photo by Zachary Small April 16, 2019April 17, 2019

The president’s action committee is selling the shirt, labeled “SPY” through its gift shop for $28.00. It also comes as a tank top.

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Kehinde Wiley’s Painted Elegies for Ferguson

by Eileen G’Sell February 2, 2019February 8, 2019

The subjects of Wiley’s Ferguson paintings launch a vibrant dialogue between the canvas of the painting and the canvas of the body.

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Obama Portraits Bring Record Traffic to National Portrait Gallery

by Elena Goukassian April 2, 2018March 30, 2018

On March 24 alone, the day of the March For Our Lives, 35,968 people visited the museum.

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