A Most Extraordinary Week: Unveiling the Obama Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
By any measure, it has been a remarkable week, starting with the unveiling of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama's portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald at the National Portrait Gallery last Monday. After almost two years of secret deliberations, fundraising, and preparation it was no small relief to have literally "pulled the curtains" off the pictures without an advanced leak of the images. While we had kept the circle very small – restricted t