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“In Wiley’s rendering, Judith is depicted as a black woman and Holofernes as a white woman.” “Fans of the Obama portrait will recognize Wiley’s photo-realistic human figures, distinct colors and prominent use of floral backgrounds.” “Wiley translates this image of a courageous, powerful woman into a contemporary version that resonates with fury and righteousness.”

I did a slight adjustment to Baracks new "portrait"....(or maybe, "POTrait") to make the "garden setting" a little more appropriate for him.

Twitter users noted on Monday morning that Amy Sherald's portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama resembled someone else, not its muse. The former first lady's painting was done by Sherald, a Baltimore-based artist who won the Gallery's 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. "As you may have guessed, I don't think there's anybody in my family who's had a portrait done, let alone a portrait that will hang in the National Gallery," Obama told attendees. "I am a little overwhelmed, to say the least," she added. "I am humbled. I am honored. I'm proud, but most of all, I am...

The National Portrait Gallery on Monday unveiled portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama — to a very mixed reception. Even though Barack Obama praised Baltimore-based artist Amy Sherald “for so spectacularly capturing the grace and beauty and intelligence and charm and hotness of the woman I love,” many critics on social media slammed the rendition of the former first lady. Their main question: Is that really her? […] For the portrait, the former first lady was painted in “grayscale” — a charcoal color with taupe undertones. She’s seated, with her hair falling around her shoulders,...

An official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Monday morning. The painting was done by Baltimore artist Amy Sherald, who is known for her social justice painting style.

WASHINGTON — The National Portrait Gallery will unveil official portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle on Monday — with the art world wondering how they will be portrayed by the noted African-American artists they selected to portray them. Obama, the nation’s first African-American president, selected Kehinde Wiley; Mrs. Obama picked Amy Sherald. Both artists are known for their painting of African-Americans. Wiley and Sherald are the first African-Americans to be commissioned by the gallery to paint official portraits. The gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has the only complete collection of presidential portraits outside of the...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery unveiled its commissioned portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Monday. Barack Obama image, painted by artist Kehinde Wiley, shows him seated in front of an ivy backdrop, while Michelle Obama was painted by Amy Sherald in a pale blue setting. Wiley and Sherald were the first black artists commissioned to paint a presidential couple for the Smithsonian. “Kehinde was working at a disadvantage,” the 44th U.S. president joked at the ceremony. “His subject was less becoming. Not as fly.” “I tried to negotiate less gray hair, but Kehinde’s artistic...

Who is Barack Obama’s? I mean really, who is he? Many Conservatives feared the worst when Obama was elected. I smelled a racist and a Marxist. Earlier this month we learned that Obama’s liked to rub elbowed with a famously vicious anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan. The picture of the two shaking hands and grinning gleefully never circulated until now. Now we find out that Obama’s official portrait artist drew herself holding the heads of beheaded white women. Who is Barack Obama, America? Who is he really and what has he done?

Former President Barack Obama went gaga for Michelle Obama’s official portrait Monday — thanking the artist for capturing the former first lady’s “hotness.” “Amy, I want to thank you for so spectacularly capturing the grace and beauty and the intelligence and charm and hotness of the woman that I love,” the permanently smitten Obama said, The Hill reported.

Barack and Michelle Obama were at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Monday in D.C. for the unveiling of their portraits. Obama's painting features the official flower of Chicago and African blue lilies are a nod to his late Kenyan-born father, Barack Sr. The painting will join the “America’s Presidents” exhibition and will be available for public viewing beginning Tuesday.

Just when it seem that Obama could not sink lower...the background of his choice of portrait painters is made known... Can you imagine if a White President had their portrait done by a White painter who had painted these in 'reverse'....? The cry would be worldwide...and deafening. ""While the recently unveiled official portraits of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have drawn scrutiny for being…well, kinda weird, here’s another fun fact that might be worse than the paintings themselves. It turns out Kehinde Wiley, the artist former President Obama hand-picked to paint his Secret Garden-esque likeness, also has a penchant...

Michelle Obama chose a racist artist to paint her official portrait Michelle Obama chose an artist named Amy Sherald to paint her official portrait.The New York Times writes of Sherald:Ms. Sherald only paints African-Americans.I can’t wait for all the social justice warriors who want the government to force bakers to bake cakes for gay weddings, to use the exact same logic to try to get the government to force Sherald to paint portraits of white customers.Just kidding. We all know those hypocrites are never going to do that.

The Smithsonian Institute has just revealed an official portrait of former President Barack Obama in Washington, DC. Just before dramatically unveiling the former president's portrait, which depicts him sitting in a garden amid green ivy, the Institute presented a portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama, and it looks like it definitely left a huge impression on her. The portrait was greeted with gasps and applause. "Wow, wow," Obama said in awe once the portrait was unveiled. She gave a short speech afterward. "Can we just say wow again?" she said. "I have to tell you that as I stand...

Barack and Michelle Obama re-emerged on the public stage Monday in Washington, only this time for an event that has nothing to do with politics. The former first couple's official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, a rite of passage for most former presidents, all of whom have their portraits hanging in the museum.

RUSH: Folks, I don’t know how I’m gonna do this. They had the official portrait unveiling today of Barack Hussein O and Michelle (My Belle) O, and I said, “Oh. My.” And so did the audience, when one of these portraits was unveiled. They did it at the Smithsonian. Now, I remember when the official portrait of Bill and the witch — ah, sorry — Hillary Clinton were unveiled. They did it at the White House. They had it in one of the rooms in the White House. George Bush welcomed the Clintons in and all of their buddies and...

Can you imagine if Donald Trump’s official portrait artist painted white women holding the decapitated heads of African-American women? There would be social chaos. But as Americans we are supposed to sit back and applaud Obama’s artist for chopping off the heads of white women to be carried like a trophy by African-American women? Was this artist, Kehinde Wiley, paid with public tax monies to paint Obama’s portrait?

The artist who painted former President Obama’s portrait for the Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has an interesting past. While reviewing previous works by artist Kehinde Wiley, it was discovered that he has a great fondness for painting black women beheading white women. Both beheading pieces are titled “Judith beheading Holofernes”, referencing a story in the Book of Judith, which involves a beautiful woman who seduces an invading general before he is able to destroy their land, gets him drunk, and then decapitates him.

The first IRS viewpoint discrimination case to be filed, Z Street v. IRS, has been settled, with disturbing revelations about how the Internal Revenue Service treated pro-Israel organizations applying for tax-exempt status. I founded Z Street in 2009 to educate Americans about the Middle East and Israel’s defense against terror. We applied for tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code in December 2009—a process that usually takes three to six months. Instead, the application languished. In late July 2010, an IRS agent truthfully responded to our lawyer’s query about why processing was taking so long: Z Street’s application...

There’s a headline I bet you didn’t see coming, huh? We’re living in a time when the American energy sector is surging and becoming a dominant force not only domestically, but globally as well. There’s a president in the White House who is loosening up restrictions on drilling --SNIP-- And because of our old friend the Renewable Fuel Standard, that means that the refinery has to purchase government mandated RIN credits (Renewable Identification Number) in order to legally operate. In case you’re wondering how much those RIN credits cost these days on the bizarre market which has grown out of...

A Wall Street Journal report detailing the broken-down status of talks between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner on the year-end “fiscal cliff” reveals that Obama threatened to use both his inaugural and State of the Union speeches to blame Republicans if there’s no deal. Negotiations reportedly came to a standstill after Boehner proposed increasing the tax rate on top earners: Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In an Oval Office meeting last week, he told Mr. Boehner that if the sides didn’t reach agreement, he would use his inaugural address and his...