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

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, who were foundational to the Whitney’s founding in 1930, by presenting a new ...

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...

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 ...

Among our favorite shows at the moment are ones that feature strong, talented women, like Patty Chang, Myrlande Constant, and ...

AMY SHERALD: When I think of "American Sublime," I think about my mother ... And so I always tell young artists, the world is full of quitters, so don't quit and you'll eventually rise to the ...

As Arewà Basit walked up to view her portrait for the first time at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she could barely hold ...