Kehinde Wiley

Five years after his Obama portrait, Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere all at once

Kehinde Wiley wonders aloud if he’ll ever reach a career moment of such import and gravity as his famous 2018 portrait of Barack Obama, which has drawn crowds around the United States.

In this Aug. 20, 2018, file photo, an MTV statue appears on the red carpet at the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York. MTV is marking its 40th anniversary with a relaunch of its iconic image of an astronaut on the moon, with an MTV flag planted nearby. On Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021 the video channel unveiled a large scale “Moon Person" during a ceremony at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

MTV marks 40th anniversary with a new ‘Moon Person’ design

Richmond gets a new soaring statue, this one with dreadlocks

A bronze sculpture, "Rumors of War," by artist Kehinde Wiley, appears in Times Square at an unveiling on Friday Sept. 27, 2019, in New York. The work, depicting of a young African American in urban streetwear sitting astride a galloping horse, will be exhibited through December 1. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Artist Kehinde Wiley unveils bold sculpture in Times Square

Tickets to see Obama portraits in Atlanta to go on sale

ATLANTA (AP) — Tickets will soon be available for people who want to see portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in Atlanta.