Amy Sherald, the former Baltimore artist who painted former first lady Michelle Obama’s portrait, has withdrawn her solo show ...

Visitors photographed a portrait of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, painted by the artist Robert McCurdy, near a portrait of ...

The artist Amy Sherald has canceled a major exhibition of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing ...

Amy Sherald claims the museum was planning to cut a portrait of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from the ...

The artist said that she made the decision after she said she learned that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty ...

Amy Sherald has withdrawn her solo exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns that her ...

I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship, especially when it targets vulnerable communities,” Amy ...

The artist, best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama, said the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery wanted to keep ...

Amy Sherald said the National Portrait Gallery was considering removing her piece, Trans Forming Liberty, a painting that ...

Sherald believes that the present threat of erasure and pointed legislative attacks on the trans community necessitates the ...

Artist Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” would have been the first solo show by a contemporary Black artist at the National ...

It’s clear that institutional fear shaped by a broader climate of political hostility toward trans lives played a role,” she ...