African American Literatures and Cultures Institute

In the Equestrian Portrait of King Phillip II made by Kehinde Wiley, the painting presents the well renowned Michael Jackson as a royal kin...

Mr. Wiley portrays this black, bald, blonde-haired woman standing with sass as a colorful depiction of flowers and greenery surrounds and en...

Judith and Holofernes is an oil painting by Kehinde Wiley that I have nicknamed the “Beheading of Becky.” The painting displays a black wom...

This is the painting Juliette Récamier by Kehinde Wiley. It is of a woman sitting in a formal dress on a couch surrounded by flowers and le...

Kehinde Wiley’s Conspicuous Fraud Series #1 (Eminence)  depicts a middle aged African American male contrasted by a somewhat muggy teal back...

Support the Rural Population and Serve 500 Million Peasants  by Kehinde Wiley. The painting features a young African American male holding a...

 A more photos from the time D. A. Y. Tyme met with AALCI .