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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Kehinde wiley - What They Never Told You

Trump asks Smithsonian to install ‘Colossus statue’ of George Washington with exhibit

Trump, again trying to curate museum, says exhibit would stay until 2032 for 300th anniversary of Washington’s birth

The Guardian - US

Trump team looks to offload ‘woke’ and ‘terrifying’ painting by artist behind Obama’s official portrait

The painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 had been hanging in the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo since 2015 before being removed

The Independent UK

Artist Kehinde Wiley puts power in a new frame with paintings of African leaders

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong series exploring politics and image-making

The Independent UK

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‘I did it for the experience’: Amoako Boafo, the artist who painted Jeff Bezos’s rocket ship

The Ghanaian’s dazzling work has been blasted into space and inspired a Dior collection. But, ahead of a new show, the ‘future of portraiture’ reveals how he originally wanted to be a tennis player

The Guardian - UK

Renowned Obama portraitist Kehinde Wiley accused of groping up-and-coming artist

Exclusive: Ogechi Chieke claims she lost interest in pursuing an art career after the alleged attack

The Independent UK

Smiles all round as Alayo Akinkugbe curates show of Black portraiture in London

Alayo Akinkugbe, behind Instagram’s @ablackhistoryofart, on her first solo-curated exhibition, ‘The World Smiles With You’, at London’s Opera Gallery (until 26 June)

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Obama’s portrait artist denies allegations of sexual assault, claiming accuser ‘aggressively’ pursued him

Kehinde Wiley was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow artist and curator twice in 2021

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What makes Charles' portrait so scary

Seeing red? The unsettling horror of the royal portrait may reveal more about how we see him

Salon

On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights

The American author on whale watching, Kehinde Wiley’s hypnotic paintings and an indispensable Canadian singer-songwriter

The Guardian - UK

Entangled Pasts 1768-Now review – RA all at sea with its risk-light colonial revisionism

From a pregnant woman tossed from a slave ship to reworkings of Titian and Da Vinci featuring black faces, this show aims to redress the RA’s biased version of art history – but it could all have been more daring

The Guardian - UK

Design at the White House: the creatives working with US Presidents past and present

Interior designers, fashion designers and artists, whose collaborators have included the White House and its residents, with commissions that range from interior refits to presidential portraits

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Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere, all at once

Kehinde Wiley wonders aloud if he’ll ever reach a career moment of such import and gravity as his famous 2018 portrait of Barack Obama, which has drawn crowds around the United States

The Independent UK

Movie review: 'Chevalier' fails to convey scope of composer's fascinating life

It’s a striking image — a young Black man, dressed in 18th-century French fashion, in a waistcoat and silk breeches, his hair braided in cornrows, holding a violin, the bow slung over his shoulder, the title “Chevalier” emblazoned below his feet. This movie poster almost looks like a Kehinde Wiley…

Tribune News Service

Kehinde Wiley: the artist exploring Black vulnerability through monumental works

His exhibition at the de Young museum has a funereal mood: figures lie prone and lifeless, yet resonate strength

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On my radar: Bolu Babalola’s cultural highlights

The novelist and comedy writer on her song of the summer, her new favourite sitcom and the brilliance of director Lynette Linton

The Guardian - US

‘The beginning of a conversation’: the Met examines a complex history of emancipation art

In a new exhibition, the popularity of antislavery art is revisited with a critical eye on what is being shown and why it’s being celebrated

Businessweek

At the Venice Biennale, Art Begins to Leave Identity Politics Behind

The much-anticipated, Covid-delayed global showcase sees artists firmly moving away from figuration and toward a new end: the message.

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