Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel flip side of a Gidget

flip side of a Gidget film

Referencing the underrepresented history of Black dolls through Saar’s artistic lens

Text by Ruth Eglash

Audie Murray

(January 11 – March 7

Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel flip side of a GidgetText by Ruth Eglash, Claudia J. Nahson. Interview by Dr. Shalva Weil. Kehinde 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