Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel bhm and other ephemera

and other ephemera

Pages: 320 pp

William Lescaze

The catalog—which accompanies the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery

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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel bhm and other ephemeraKehinde Wileys acclaimed World Stage series inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it, or that western art has portrayed solely in colonial, Orientalist terms. Among the countries and continents he has previously depicted in this ambitious traveling epic are Brazil, Africa, China, India and Sri Lanka. The rhetoric of Wileys paintings is powerful in its