Tag: Kehinde Wiley

  • Black art matters: what not to miss in Miami

    Miami Art Scene May 2021 – leading America’s obsessive, overdue, and necessarily over-weighted attention to diversity, the focus on Black Art has morphed from moment to movement

  • Kehinde Wiley: Ship of Fools

    Wiley’s first foray into film depicts a scene of young black men in the sea, struggling to reach land. It is a poignant meditation on migration, exclusion and social dislocation, yet it is not without hope

  • Drawn Together Again

    With 120 artists to choose from, this drawing show is stuffed with treasures. There is something here for everyone

  • The Armory Show 2019

    From historical displays to recent works by relatively unknown artists, from performance to installation, from politically provocative and conceptual pieces to ornamental presentations, this year’s Armory presented a well-measured display of opposing – even conflicting – trends within the art…

  • Art Basel Miami Beach 2017

    It was all systems go – quality art, media buzz, more space, more work – but with a lower attendance and many big collector names absent, America’s premier art fair had a last hurrah undertow

  • Kehinde Wiley: ‘I think ideas are just as important as the material practice of painting’

    African-American artist Kehinde Wiley talks about the practice of painting as a conceptual tool to express his worldview and ideas that inspire him