Like the historic Lansdowne painting of Washington, Obama’s portrait is rife with symbolism. But where Gilbert Stuart flirts with the splendors of the office of the President, Wiley alludes to the ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The portraits of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama are coming to Chicago. They will be displayed at the Art Institute on June 18 to kick off a ...

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 ...