Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorLACMA’s new exhibit “The Obama Portraits Tour” features the official portraits of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively.
They hang alone on a white wall in the Resnick Pavilion. But not just any wall.“When you’re the viewer looking at the portraits, you’re looking north,” Liz Andrews, who co-curated the exhibit with Christine Y.
Kim, tells Variety. “I wanted to conjure the idea of the North Star. It’s not the brightest, it’s not the biggest, but it’s the star that guides us.
So many people who emancipated themselves, who escaped slavery, used the North Star as a way to look for their freedom. So I think the only way we.
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