{"id":4162,"date":"2019-06-28T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2019-06-28T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:19:30","slug":"kehinde-wiley-to-unveil-sculpture-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/kehinde-wiley-to-unveil-sculpture-in-times-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Kehinde Wiley to unveil sculpture in Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4163\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4163\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kehinde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kehinde.jpg 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kehinde-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kehinde-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presley Ann\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK (AP)<\/strong> \u2014 Artist Kehinde Wiley will unveil his first monumental public sculpture in New York&#8217;s Times Square this fall in response to Confederate statues nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Times Square Arts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and gallery owner Sean Kelly announced Thursday that the bronze &#8220;Rumors of War&#8221; sculpture features a young black male dressed in urban streetwear mounted atop a horse.<\/p>\n<p>The project originated when Wiley saw Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart&#8217;s monument in Richmond, Virginia.<br \/>\nWiley is known for his paintings of black Americans and his commissioned portrait of President Barack Obama, displayed at the National Portrait Gallery. He says the new statue&#8217;s inspiration is war and &#8220;an engagement with violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rumors of War&#8221; will display in Times Square from Sept. 27 to December before finding a permanent home at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Artist Kehinde Wiley will unveil his first monumental public sculpture in New York&#8217;s Times Square this fall in response to Confederate statues nationwide. Times Square Arts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and gallery owner Sean Kelly announced Thursday that the bronze &#8220;Rumors of War&#8221; sculpture features a young black male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,176],"tags":[694,31,54,696],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-news","tag-associated-press","tag-featured","tag-kehinde-wiley","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}