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That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.
Kehinde Wiley
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Kehinde Wiley
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 28
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It never really understood its own situational luxury. And I think that by and large the privilege of being Kehinde Wiley in the 21st century, making these high-priced luxury goods, traveling the world, pointing at these people, behooves me to have a point of view and to say something about it.
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