A Confederate statue ... in a hoodie?
When Kehinde Wiley walked down Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, a few years ago, the towering statues of Confederate generals, memorialized on horseback in heroic battle pose, made a deep impression.
On one hand, the monuments filled him with “a sense of dread and fear,” celebrating a regime that fought to uphold slavery.
As an artist, however, Mr. Wiley also marveled. The epic monumentality, the romanticism, the power of images of the human body in action –
