Amy Sherald’s portraits are an unsettling fusion of the intimate and the unknown — allegories and archetypes with impossibly ...

Amy Sherald, best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama, is affirmed as one of the most significant American artists of our time in "American Sublime," a Whitney Museum retrospective ...

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney... Painter Amy Sherald asks: What is American?

In 2018, she painted Michelle Obama's portrait, seated in a flowy, white poplin dress, resting her chin on her hand. NPR's Olivia Hampton met Sherald at the Whitney and brings us this report.

Obama said at the time his portrait was unveiled, “When future generations walk these halls and look up at these portraits, I hope they get a better honest sense of who Michelle and I were.

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.