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Kehinde Wiley Writes Trump Asking to Buy Back Embassy Painting Pulled Over 'Woke' Label

Kehinde Wiley has written to President Donald Trump asking to repurchase his 2015 painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, which the State Department removed from the US Embassy in Santo Domingo in August. Officials had branded the work 'woke' during a broader purge of embassy art.

Source date · 29 Sept 2026

AI-generated illustration of a sculpture outside a museum.

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Public Art · Washington DC

Crozier rigs and installs Elmgreen & Dragset's monumental 'Eight' at the Hirshhorn

Crozier's Special Projects team unloaded, reoriented, assembled and secured 'Eight' (2026), a 28-foot, 50,000-pound steel and concrete sculpture commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

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