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At eight feet tall, John Wilson<\/a>\u2019s bronze bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. was intended to be \u201ca Black image you could not ignore.\u201d Much smaller, but still arresting, Wilson\u2019s sculpture of King with an intensely focused gaze (a model for the final piece installed in Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Buffalo) dominates the first gallery of the artist\u2019s powerful Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> retrospective.\u00a0 Intimate charcoal drawings of the love between fathers and children, stylized portrayals of working people in Mexico and Paris, pictured incidents of racially motivated violence and art made in wartime show Wilson countering prevalent negative images of African Americans with depictions grounded in real-life that demonstrate beauty and respect for Black subjects. (On view on the Upper East Side at the Met Museum through Feb 8th<\/sup>, 2026).<\/p>\n

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John Wilson, Maquette for Martin Luther King, Jr. (Buffalo, New York), modeled 1982, cast 2021, bronze.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At eight feet tall, John Wilson\u2019s bronze bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. was intended to be \u201ca Black image you could not ignore.\u201d Much smaller, but still arresting, Wilson\u2019s sculpture of King with an intensely focused gaze (a model for the final piece installed in Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Buffalo) dominates the … <\/p>\n

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