I respect her as Michelle Obama, not just as first lady,” said Staten-Mirch. She had already seen both this portrait and Barack Obama’s, painted by Kehinde Wiley, when an exhibition called the ...

The portrait was painted in 2018 by artist Robert McCurdy and depicts Obama against a stark white background. Official White House portraits are different from those shown in the National Portrait ...

with some criticizing the painting, comparing the work to a kid's art project and saying it looked nothing like Michelle. President Obama's portrait, by Kehinde Wiley, was more well received.

For her debut solo exhibition in New York, Sherald takes twenty-first American realism, broadens it, and spins it on its ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama wears a black-and-white gown with blocks of color woven throughout in her portrait, created by painter Amy Sherald. The artist explained that the pattern of her ...

After the Washington Post ran a front-page photo of President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu sitting in front of the Oval ...

Tammy Vigil, an associate professor of communications at Boston University and author of a book on Michelle Obama and Melania ... and posed for an official portrait in a tuxedo, for which Vogue ...

Some people criticized the painting, saying it didn’t look like Michelle and compared it to a child’s art project. Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of former President Barack Obama received better ... A ...

Let out your inner nerd (and hear from Janelle Monáe) at Blerdcon, sample wine and cheese for Women's History Month, or dance ...