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Art Basel Miami Beach Forgives Kehinde Wiley
Nobody is being canceled in the newly post-political art world anymore.
In Miami Beach this week, some blue-state gallerists in town for Art Basel struggled to find congenial ways to talk about the presidential election without alienating their affluent, increasingly conservative clientele. At Art Basel, all four international galleries that represent Kehinde Wiley, an artist whom four men accused of either rape or sexual misconduct this past spring, presented his work at the fair, sometimes in very big ways. Apparently, the allegations are still a sensitive subject, because they then declined to tell me the painting’s price or even its title (which was readily available on the gallery’s website: Portrait of Seydina Omar Gueye II, 2024), and I was referred to a PR company.
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