The Daily Mail published a story titled “Michelle Obama shares throwback to happier times in the White House amid rumors of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Amy Sherald’s official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was revealed to the ... of the first Trump administration, the painting became a sort of traveling relic.

I always drew, or I was painting or looking at paintings in ... can lead you to not loving yourself. I found out that Michelle Obama chose me to paint her official portrait in September 2016.

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 ...

There are nearly 50 paintings in Amy Sherald ... of American Art in April. Each and every one of them—most famously, of course, her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama—features ...

“For Love, and for Country,” Amy Sherald’s 2022 painting ... s second most famous work after “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama” is the 2020 painting “Breonna Taylor,” a portrait ...

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

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 ...

Mark Arts’ current major exhibition focuses on fashion in fine art. “The jumping off point is the John Singer Sargent portrait “Madame X” from the 1880s and also Amy Sherald’s portrait of Michelle ...

From left: Amy Sherald ... Walker praised Sherald’s ability to capture the dignity and humanity of her subjects, particularly in her groundbreaking portrait of Michelle Obama.