My friends and I may have driven all the way to Detroit for the Kehinde Wiley lecture only to be stood up at the last minute, but it doesn’t mean we love him any less.
With the latest intallment of his World Stage series, Wiley explores Rio de Janeiro, specifically the boys of the favela slums — a chaotic milieu in which a vibrant multitude of cultures and ethnicities flourish despite living under the thumb of drugs and gang violence.