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Kehinde Wiley

In the few years since the Los Angeles-born painter Kehinde Wiley received his MFA from Yale, he has pursued a narrowly focused and inimitable style. Fusing the worlds of baroque art and contemporary hiphop culture, Wiley’s oil paintings subversively insert young black men into an art historical tradition from which they are otherwise absent. So […]

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