On Monday in Washington, D.C., at 10 o’clock in the morning, audible gasps filled the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery as former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama, along with ...

To 21st century eyes, Ingres’ portrait looks ridiculously pompous – an ostentatious piece of theatre intended to make a little man look big – so the theatricality of Wiley’s version is perfectly in ...

The crowd has taken the team by surprise. It was supposed to be an evening reserved for artists, relatives of the big boss and the capital’s cultural elite. But, word of mouth in Dakar being what it ...

Behind Kehinde Wiley, the ocean. The artist is sitting in an office at Black Rock in Dakar, Senegal, the artist residency he established several years ago to support creation and collaborative ...

Kehinde Wiley is best known for his distinctive presidential portrait of Barack Obama. But Wiley has spent most of his career painting vibrant portrayals of everyday Black men and women. A new ...