Starting in June 2021, the official portraits of Michelle and Barack Obama will leave the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC to tour five ...

*Former president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama will be going on a five-city museum tour that started earlier this summer. Actually, Barack and Michelle themselves won’t be touring, but ...

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 ...

The official portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are on a national tour. Making the only West Coast stop, the paintings are coming to the Los Angeles County Museum ...

The portraits were done by acclaimed African-American artists, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald. "Pretty sharp!" Barack Obama quipped of his portrait, painted by Kehinde Wiley, an artist best known for ...

The National Portrait Gallery revealed the portraits of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama Monday morning, prompting people on social media to draw comparisons of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

When former President Barack Obama hand-picked Kehinde Wiley to paint his official presidential portrait, it marked a watershed moment in the career of the 41-year-old artist. A rising star in the ...

The groundbreaking portraits of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama — painted by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively — will go on view at the Brooklyn Museum ...

This year’s list sees Nigerian-born American painter, Kehinde Wiley, the artist who painted the official portrait of Barack Obama. “Some consider him irreverent; I see an iconoclast,” rapper LL Cool J ...