Kehinde Wiley reinvented a famous Confederate statue when he replaced a Rebel general with his own rebel rider. Wiley’s “Rumors of War” is modeled on a statue of J.E.B. Stuart that long stood in Richmond, Virginia. The Stuart statue was removed, along with other Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, in 2020. Wiley’s version, whose rider is a confident-looking Black man wearing dreadlocks, jeans and Nikes, had been installed nearby just months earlier. Like paintings Wiley made for a 2018 St. Louis Art Museum exhibition, the statue both repudiates and reclaims historic images for the 21st century. Artist Kehinde Wiley poses in 2018 at his exhibition at the St. Louis Art…