The Shifting Perspective in Kehinde Wiley's Portrait of Barack Obama

Wiley’s best works seem haunted by a quiet uncertainty: Are these depictions of black people crashing the party of power ironic, or meant to reflect some real and hoped-for future?
Vinson Cunningham reviews Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Barack Obama for the Smithsonian.

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