In addition to Obama’s, the portraits also echo Wiley’s earlier works, in which young Black men appear in poses most associated with paintings of kings and generals. Showing his would-be ...

The allegations were made by Joseph Awuah-Darko, a Ghanaian artist who says they occurred in 2021. A new exhibition by Kehinde Wiley that uses ... Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley unveiled a series of large-format ... building on his now famous 2018 portrait of former U.S. President Barack Obama sitting casually amid a wild cascade of leaves ...

A statue in Times Square depicting an ordinary Black woman has held up a mirror to people's attitudes about race and celebration.

Mr. Wiley, famous for his portrait of former President Obama, is now showing paintings of 11 current and former African heads of state. “This is not a celebration of individual leadership,” he ...

According to her biography on the National Portrait Gallery website, Sajet was the first woman to serve as director of the Smithsonian’s art ... Kehinde Wiley’s popular 2018 painting of Barack ...

Museum Van Loon is presenting Flourish: Kehinde Wiley x Museum Van Loon, an exhibition of new portraits by renowned American artist Kehinde Wiley.

Art, which on Monument Avenue and elsewhere ... seize the moment to bring tangible meaning to the symbolic force of Kehinde Wiley’s striking statue, and fashion justice and equity out of a ...

Malia Obama continues to be a trend leader in the fashion and beauty space. While out during Memorial Day Weekend, the former president’s daughter was seen per Page Six in the Hamptons ...

EXCLUSIVE — An official involved in the Obama-era Internal Revenue Service scandal, which involved IRS officials singling out conservative groups for increased scrutiny when they applied for tax ...

BrosNYC/BACKGRID Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama got all dressed up for a stylish date night in New York City. On Tuesday, May 27, the political power couple got a bite to eat at ...