Amy Sherald’s portraits are an unsettling fusion of the intimate and the unknown — allegories and archetypes with impossibly ...

Inspired in large part by two well-known paintings ... and the Michelle Obama portrait initially received, they continue the themes that those two works have in common: that of an artist sending ...

“Though she has been known for these two moments, Mrs. Obama and Breonna Taylor’s portraits, she has been a working artist for 25 years,” Rujeko Hockley, the show’s curator, said in a press preview at ...

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Artists who accept commissions to paint portraits, no matter how esteemed they are in the realm of portraiture (or in fine ...

Visitors to the White House on Friday were greeted with a new addition to the executive mansion’s art ... lady Michelle Obama returned to the White House to see both of their official portraits ...