State Dept. looking to sell US embassy artwork official called ‘very woke’

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The federal government may be looking to sell of one of its prized pieces of art that had hung in the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic for over a decade before it was removed last week. The director of the State Department’s Art in Embassies program described the painting by acclaimed artist Kehinde Wiley as “very woke.” CNN’s Jacqui Palumbo reports.

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