Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley appears in the following:

Kehinde Wiley's 2018, 'The New American Songbook,' Literary Portraiture

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Kehinde Wiley on his artistic practice. Forrest Wickman on "The New American Songbook." Beowulf Sheehan on his portraits.

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Black Lives Reimagined in Kehinde Wiley's Art

Monday, April 13, 2015

Riffing on paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects.

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Kehinde Wiley’s Modern-Day Royalty

Thursday, February 26, 2015

The artist Kehinde Wiley wondered why he never saw people who looked like him in museums. His ground-breaking paintings, which borrow from art history, are changing that.

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Kehinde Wiley

Friday, July 25, 2008

Up-and-coming painter Kehinde Wiley is a bit of a throwback -– to the Baroque era. Wiley's oil paintings are big, colorful, beautifully painted portraits. Kurt visits in his studio to find out how he has scouted models from the streets of Harlem to West Africa.

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