The National Portrait Gallery has recently unveiled the official portraits of former United States president, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Portrait Gallery, owns the only readily accessible complete collection of presidential likenesses. However, recent commissioned additions to the collection have been so undistinguished that the tradition of […]
From February 7 until April 29, 2018, five stained glass windows by African-American artist Kehinde Wiley will go on display at Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Wiley is fascinated by the iconography of the sacred and here centres his stained glass windows around representations of vulnerability in Christianity. By combining stained glass, through […]
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From November 24, 2017, to January 27, 2018, Stephen Friedman Gallery will present In Search of the Miraculous, an exhibition of recent work by renowned portraitist Kehinde Wiley. This marks an important moment in Wiley’s career, as he departs from the portrait style for which he is celebrated to explore the atmospheric and romanticised tradition […]
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recently announced the commissioning of the museum’s official portraits of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama. Leading contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley best known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of African Americans will create the portrait of President Obama while Amy Sherald, first-prize winner of the Portrait Gallery’s […]
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