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Administration officials mocked his work, then removed it from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, suggesting they would auction it. Wiley offered to buy it back.
The renowned artist Kehinde Wiley has sent a letter to President Trump asking to buy back one of his paintings after administration officials removed it from the American Embassy in the Dominican Republic, mocked it as “aesthetically terrifying” and falsely claimed it featured a lesbian picnic.
After government officials suggested they might sell the work, Mr. Wiley took steps to reclaim it.
The experience left him feeling a “deep sadness,” Mr. Wiley told The New York Times on Monday in his first public comments on the controversy.
“If the administration is not particularly interested in the work, bring it home. Let me have it,” Mr. Wiley added. “It was a really successful painting and it is a shame it was so little understood.”…Click here to read the full article
