Works are hung floor to ceiling
/ 180 pages / 144 color images / 56 b&w images
Illinois (January 30 – April 27
Kehinde Wiley’s acclaimed World Stage series inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it
Christine Riding is the Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of British Paintings at the National Gallery
Kehinde Wiley: The Prelude Works are hung floor toText by Christine Riding, Sarah Thomas, Zo Whitley. This volume accompanies the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: The Prelude at the National Gallery, London, December 10, 2021 April 18, 2022. The American artist Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is best known for his spectacular portraits that position people of colour in the traditional settings of old master paintings, raising questions about power, privilege and identity, and highlighting the absence or