The Obama Portraits Have Landed at the Brooklyn Museum

The Obama Portraits have landed at the Brooklyn Museum, after spending the past two months at the Art Institute of Chicago. Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald's prolific paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama have enchanted visitors since first exhibiting at Washington D.C.'s National Portrait Gallery in 2018. Commissioned by the Smithsonian, the portraits helped the institution smash attendance records by over a million people from the year before.What is special about The Obama Portraits, according...