Kehinde Wiley takes the Old Master style of portraiture and makes it his own. He paints Black and Brown young men, casually dressed and boldly positioned against patterned backgrounds. His stunning presidential portrait of Barack Obama, unveiled in 2018, was a distinct cultural moment. Ten years before that, Wiley had created a series inspired by Hans Holbein the Younger’s painting The Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521–22). He used the motif of the fallen figure to comment on the silence surrounding systemic violence against Black people. Wiley expands upon this series in a new body of paintings and sculptures, damning what he calls “an archaeology of silence.” —Clara Molot