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The painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 had been hanging in the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo since 2015 before being removed
State Department officials have declared a weird war on a piece of art that once hung in the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic.
The U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic took down Kehinde Wiley’s Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 painting.
The State Department said it’s looking to rid itself of the piece by Kehinde Wiley, a recipient of the department’s Medal of Arts back in 2015.