The Jewish Museum will present a new exhibition this spring by contemporary painter Kehinde Wiley. The exhibition entitled, The World Stage: Israel, begins March 9 and runs through July 29. The exhibition will feature 14 new large-scale paintings, featured for the first time in New York. The vibrant portraits depict Israeli youth from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds and are embedded in a unique background influenced by ceremonial Jewish art.
Wiley has hand carved each of the 14 wooden frames created for the exhibition. Each of the paintings combines religious and cultural imagery containing images from Judaism, Islam, and Christian traditions.
Exhibition highlights include Wiley's "Kalkidan Mashasha" which is a portrait of the Ethiopian-Israeli hip-hop artist, and "Leviathan Zodiac" which pictures the subject in a regal pose reminiscent of ancient Roman heroic sculpture.
For more details on exhibitions and events, visit the Jewish Museum's website.
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