The Amy Sherald SFMOMA show is the artist's largest to date, featuring her Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor paintings.

A notion that often goes unchallenged in the liberal media landscape is the idea of representation as a quick fix for all race relations-related plights. While the holding of space by Black figures in ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art devotes an exhibition to the contemporary American painter, best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama. Peter Plagens ...

“For Love, and for Country,” Amy Sherald’s 2022 painting now on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, shows two Black ... in Times Square.” The original image depicted a white ...

As Sherald’s work has evolved technically and thematically through the 2020s, it increasingly engages with broader cultural conversations about representation.

Amy Sherald and Annie Liebovitz. Photo: Troi Santos The conversation began with Darren Walker emphasizing the role of art in shaping culture and society. Reflecting on Annie Leibovitz’s ability ...