Portrait unveiling of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 2018. Both Sherald and Wiley were interviewed ...

The official paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama are going on a whistle-stop tour. The Obama portrait tour will bring the works, which have been wildly popular with visitors since going on display ...

National Portrait Gallery unveils official Obama portraits in a ceremony (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama joined the ...

Amy Sherald, “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama,” 2018. Oil on linen (photo courtesy the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) Ever since Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald’s official ...

Washington, DC – June 02, 2018: People near the portrait of Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald in the National Portrait Gallery in DC. — Photo by Bumble-Dee *Renowned artist Amy Sherald ...

The wildly popular official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama will go on a five-city national tour beginning in June 2021, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery announced. The paintings of ...

On Monday, Barack and Michelle Obama’s presidential portraits were unveiled from behind a large black sheet. Michelle mouthed “wow,” and Barack said, “That’s pretty sharp.” Los Angeles native Kehinde ...

Artist and former longtime Baltimorean Amy Sherald has been applauded by one U.S. president and excoriated by another. If that isn’t a sign that Sherald, a graduate of the Maryland Institute College ...