Picturing the Obamas

Picturing the Obamas - Smithsonian Channel

Smithsonian Channel

Docuseries

2022

TVPG

Documentary

Art

Follow the National Portrait Gallery’s Obama portraits as they travel to museums in U.S. cities.

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Matt Roush

Matt Roush says...

 They unveiled their White House portraits earlier this week to great fanfare, but since 2018, the National Portrait Gallery paintings of former First Couple Barack and Michelle Obama have doubled attendance to the D.C. museum since going in display. A two-hour documentary special follows these celebrated portraits as they reach a wider audience on a national tour to stops including Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston and Brooklyn. The artists, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, are profiled as the special explores the Obamas’ legacy.