Kehinde Wiley The World Stage: Israel

$40.00 at Cleveland Museum of Art.

By Kehinde Wiley, with essays by Claudia J. Nahson and Ruth EglashKehinde 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, 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 Wiley's paintings is powerful…