Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel bhm The catalog—which accompanies the exhibition

The catalog—which accompanies the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery

William Lescaze

Building on her earlier work and occupation with verticality

Like cooks who can peer into their pantry and whip up dinner on the fly

Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel bhm The catalog—which accompanies the exhibitionKehinde Wileys 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, or that western art has portrayed solely in colonial, Orientalist terms. Among the countries and continents he has previously depicted in this ambitious traveling epic are Brazil, Africa, China, India and Sri Lanka. The rhetoric of Wileys paintings is powerful in its