HYPERALLERGIC
By Jillian Steinhauer
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| Kehinde Wiley’s “Femme Piquée par un Serpent” (2008) at the Brooklyn Museum (photo by Garrett Ziegler/Flickr) |
NEW YORK---If you’re looking for a very generous review of the
Kehinde Wiley exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, read
Roberta Smith. If you’re looking for one that’s startlingly homophobic and racist, read
Jessica Dawson. The latter piece, in the Village Voice, is truly one of the most bizarre and poor excuses for art criticism I’ve read in a very long time. That Dawson not only wrote this, but that Village Voice editors saw fit to publish it, makes it an urgent example of why
journalism needs to diversify — badly and soon. [
link]
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| Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977). Saint Remi, 2014. Stained glass, 96 x 43½ in. (243.8 x 110.5 cm). Courtesy of Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris. © Kehinde Wiley |