The Latest Breaking News from Kehinde Wiley

Trump asks Smithsonian to install ‘Colossus statue’ of George Washington with exhibit

Trump, again trying to curate museum, says exhibit would stay until 2032 for 300th anniversary of Washington’s birth

The Guardian - US · Sep 12

Trump team looks to offload ‘woke’ and ‘terrifying’ painting by artist behind Obama’s official portrait

The painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 had been hanging in the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo since 2015 before being removed

The Independent UK · Aug 25

Artist Kehinde Wiley puts power in a new frame with paintings of African leaders

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong series exploring politics and image-making

The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2025

What makes Charles' portrait so scary

Seeing red? The unsettling horror of the royal portrait may reveal more about how we see him

Salon · May 17, 2024

On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights

The American author on whale watching, Kehinde Wiley’s hypnotic paintings and an indispensable Canadian singer-songwriter

The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2024

Entangled Pasts 1768-Now review – RA all at sea with its risk-light colonial revisionism

From a pregnant woman tossed from a slave ship to reworkings of Titian and Da Vinci featuring black faces, this show aims to redress the RA’s biased version of art history – but it could all have been more daring

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

Design at the White House: the creatives working with US Presidents past and present

Interior designers, fashion designers and artists, whose collaborators have included the White House and its residents, with commissions that range from interior refits to presidential portraits

Wallpaper · Aug 4, 2023

Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere, all at once

Kehinde Wiley wonders aloud if he’ll ever reach a career moment of such import and gravity as his famous 2018 portrait of Barack Obama, which has drawn crowds around the United States

The Independent UK · May 15, 2023

Movie review: 'Chevalier' fails to convey scope of composer's fascinating life

It’s a striking image — a young Black man, dressed in 18th-century French fashion, in a waistcoat and silk breeches, his hair braided in cornrows, holding a violin, the bow slung over his shoulder, the title “Chevalier” emblazoned below his feet. This movie poster almost looks like a Kehinde Wiley…

Tribune News Service · Apr 19, 2023

Kehinde Wiley: the artist exploring Black vulnerability through monumental works

His exhibition at the de Young museum has a funereal mood: figures lie prone and lifeless, yet resonate strength

The Guardian - US · Apr 2, 2023