American Realist portraitist Amy Sherald showed Anderson Cooper her evocative "Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and ...

Amy Sherald spent years painting in obscurity, and almost died from a rare heart condition. Now 52, the artist behind ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Amy Sherald’s official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was revealed to the public in 2018, and as it toured the country over the next few years of the first Trump ...

After pulling her “American Sublime” exhibit from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery over trans censorship issues, ...

Sherald, who reached national fame for her official portrait of Michelle Obama in 2018, has since become one of the most prominent living American painters for her vibrant portraits of Black life, ...

In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art ...

Amy Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor may prove to be the most important painting of the 21 st century. A brilliant artist at the top of her game. A beautifully, powerfully, sensitively rendered ...

Artist Amy Sherald is canceling an upcoming show of her work at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Sherald's boldly colored portraits documenting the African American experience have graced ...

Artist Amy Sherald canceled her upcoming show at the Smithsonian after she said the institution wanted to remove a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty due to political fears.

LOS ANGELES – Amy Sherald began experimenting with her signature style — painting Black people in gray monochrome — around 2008. At the time, she was working in her Baltimore studio and painting ...

Acclaimed artist and Columbus native Amy Sherald, pictured in 2023, has withdrawn her upcoming solo art show from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns of censorship. Courtesy ...