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Kehinde Wiley selected to paint Obama’s presidential portrait

Kehinde Wiley a New York based artist, will paint Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait. It is scheduled to be hung in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Although he was raised in South Central, L.A., he now lives in Brooklyn. Wiley’s paintings add a modern twist to re-imagined Western classic paintings, he shows contemporary African-Americans in theatrical…

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