Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson
Oct. 24, 2018
By: Vinson Cunningham In February of this year, the artist Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Barack Obama was unveiled in Washington, D.C. The painting is at once simple and—especially when compared to most other Presidential portraits—radical: Obama, his skin glowing as if lit from within, sits calmly and informally in front…