Photograph of a statue of a Black man astride a horse in the style of Confederate memorial statues
Photograph of a statue of a Black man astride a horse in the style of Confederate memorial statues - A 7-foot tall sculpture, a small-scale version of Kehinde Wiley's defiant rejoinder to Confederate statuary, 'Rumors of War,' will be installed in Mudd Hall atrium on the university's Homewood campus When internationally celebrated artist Kehinde Wiley visited Richmond, Virginia, to open an exhibit of his works at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2016, he strolled along Monument Avenue near the museum during some downtime. And it took him to a dark place. While the handsome boulevard is leafy and lined with grand homes, along its length stood a collection of towering Confederate monuments-looming bronzes honoring the likes of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. Three years later, Wiley stood in New York's Time Square recalling that fateful day and unveiling his ambitious artistic response-a scale model of which will soon be installed at Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus. Photograph of a statue of a Black man astride a horse in the style of Confederate memorial statues - "I'm a Black man walking those streets, looking up at those things that give me a sense of dread and fear," he said. "What does that feel like, physically, to walk a public space and to have your state, your country, say, 'This is what we stand by'' No, we want more. We demand more.
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