CNN. Amanpour.
By Mick Krever, CNN
NEW YORK---To Kehinde Wiley, art is all about power. "It's been that way for hundreds of years. Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society. What I choose to do is to take people who happen to look like me -- black and brown people all over the world, increasingly -- and to allow them to occupy that field of power." His ability to translate that power to oil on canvas is astounding.
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