After successful runs in Venice, Paris, and San Francisco, Kehinde Wiley’s Archaeology of Silence has been reinstalled in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, where Classics professors Casey Dué Hackney and Richard Armstrong explored its ensemble of paintings and bronze sculptures. It is a project of scale first and foremost, broken into chapel-like galleries where the brightly-lit pieces dramatically break through darkened spaces, every one featuring the figure of a Black or Brown person in a state of ambiguous repose (most of the models are, in fact, Senegalese, as the project Read more …
