COMMENTARY: How Obama’s Portrait Reveals the Failures of the Elitist Art World
Posted: March 26, 2018 Filed under: Art & Culture, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Elitism, Fine Art, Illustration, Portrait 1 Comment
In the Weeds: Kehinde Wiley’s Obama Portrait
.As the United States clips along at the speed of Trump, the news cycle races by in a dizzying blur. Events rapidly recede without any time for real analysis. Such was the case for the big reveal of the official portraits of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Although it just happened on February 12, it already feels like ancient history. Yet this regrettable image is going to be cluttering up the National Portrait Gallery forever, so it’s worth understanding just what the tax payers had to subsidize.
The Michelle Obama portrait is just sad. A tentative, pallid non-likeness. The apparatchiks at the museum assure us that it is so popular it had to be moved to a larger display space. Perhaps a pilgrimage to it gives the same solace that some progressives get from the plastic Obama…
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pundit from another planet 
Thanks for sharing!