Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley on his artistic practice. Forrest Wickman on "The New American Songbook." Beowulf Sheehan on his portraits.

Riffing on paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects.

The artist Kehinde Wiley wondered why he never saw people who looked like him in museums. His ground-breaking paintings, which borrow from art history, are changing that.

Up-and-coming painter Kehinde Wiley is a bit of a throwback -– to the Baroque era. Wiley's oil paintings are big, colorful, beautifully painted portraits. Kurt visits in his studio to find out how he has scouted models from the streets of Harlem to West Africa.