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The photo - of a very little black girl staring up in rapt awe at a portrait of a regal Michelle Obama - flashed like wildfire across the internet a week or so ago. The mother of two-year-old Parker Curry tried in vain to take a picture of her daughter in front of the portrait, but the child, transfixed by a painting of someone she later breathlessly confided was "a queen," wouldn't turn around.
A photo of a 2-year-old girl gazing at former first lady Michelle Obama's portrait in the Smithsonian warmed hearts across the internet last week. On Tuesday, the subject of the inspirational photo got to meet Obama herself.
A photo of a little girl standing in awe in front of former First Lady Michelle Obama's official portrait is melting collective hearts across the Internet. On Thursday, Ben Hines shared a photo of the girl staring up at Obama's painting in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. "Donna Hines and I made a pilgrimage today and we were delighted to wait in line behind this fellow art lover & hopeful patriot," the post said.
Barack and Michelle Obama's official portraits were unveiled this week at the Smithsonian National Portrait Museum in Washington DC, where they will hang along with portraits of every past US president. Former US President Obama described his portrait by Kehinde Wiley - "known for his Old Master-style depiction of African-Americans," says the BBC - as "pretty sharp" The former first lady chose Amy Sherald, an artist from Baltimore known for painting life-size portraits of black Americans, to paint her portrait.
Oprah, Rob Lowe and Katy Perry's family are among thousands evacuated as fire bigger than NYC surrounds wealthy Montecito, kills two and turns so volatile that firefighters have to stand down 'Don't move one inch.
If you're stuck in traffic along the I-5 near San Diego International Airport, and your attention wanders from the brake lights in front of you, your eyes might land on a low-slung leviathan of a building, a third of a mile long, resembling the upper deck of a buried cruise ship peeking above ground. Keep your gaze there long enough, and you will notice that the geometric black-and-white pattern on the northeast side of the structure keeps changing.
The suspect in the fatal shooting of a Texas state trooper during a Thanksgiving Day traffic stop has been charged with capital murder of a law enforcement officer. The suspect in the fatal shooting of a Texas state trooper during a Thanksgiving Day traffic stop has been charged with capital murder of a law enforcement officer.
The brutally cold and snowy winter last year in the Rocky Mountains was deadly for deer and other wild game prized by hunters. The brutally cold and snowy winter last year in the Rocky Mountains was deadly for deer and other wild game prized by hunters.
Lawmakers within the ruling Zanu pf party gathered Monday to meet on the fate of long ... . Terrence Chari poses as he mimics a painting of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Mbare Harare, Monday, Nov, 20, 2017.
Preliminary autopsy results confirm that dismembered human remains found inside a subu... Court records say a man posed for photos with his dead wife and their two young children before dismembering her body in a Kansas City hotel room. Court records say a man posed for photos with his dead wife and their two young children before dismembering her body in a Kansas City hotel room.
26, 2017. file photo of the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid. With Atletico Madrid's president and other club officials standing by the team's shield, an archbishop celebrated the ceremo... The $500 million Museum of the Bible, built by the owners of the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts chain, opens Friday in Washington.
Can YOU spot why this rare da Vinci painting of Christ is puzzling experts? Uncharacteristic mistake in greatest artist's $90m depiction of Jesus has left art buffs scratching their heads 'Drunk' woman driver, 21, killed mother-of-six who was on her way home from visiting her premature twin daughters before horrific crash How ISIS virus has spread around the globe even as its heartland caliphate collapses: Map reveals where cells have sprung up in the past MONTH as the group is obliterated in Iraq and Syria 'Make him regret being born': Customer finds TERRIFYING note on his receipt after asking for extra spicy noodles at a Thai restaurant How your star sign rules your SEX LIFE: Astrologer reveals how the zodiac dictates whether you're thrill-seeking or traditional between the sheets White cop who shot dead his daughter's mixed race boyfriend is convicted of first-degree manslaughter ... (more)
John Curtis wrote two speeches for Tuesday night's primary. He summarily ripped up and tossed aside the concession version shortly after the Associated Press called the 3rd District GOP primary in his favor.
This conceptual drawing released today by the Obama Foundation shows plans for the proposed Obama Presidential Center that will be located in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side. This view looks from the south with a public plaza that extends into the landscape.
Marianne Bernstein, an artist and curator of this exhibition, told me that part of her interest in assembling this exhibition was to chronicle the changing storyline of Sicily and to encourage non-binary thinking. Isaac Julien, "Western Union Series No.
In bid to fight art fraud, Sotheby's announced Monday that it had purchased a forensics firm whose founder once helped the auction house belatedly identify a $10 million painting as a fake. Sotheby's said that Orion Analytical, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, will be folded into the company and its founder, the artist, conservator and forensic scientist James Martin, will lead a new scientific research department charged with making sure the works the auction house deals with are authentic.
The latest step in a Jewish family's 16-year battle to reclaim a priceless painting their heirs surrendered in exchange for safe passage out of Nazi Germany moves to a Southern California courtroom on Monday. Attorney David Boies will argue before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Impressionist Camille Pissarro's 1897 work rightfully belongs to the family of Lilly Cassirer.
As protests of President-elect Donald Trump entered another day, police in Portland, Oregon, say one person was shot by a man who had gotten into a confrontation with a protester. Portland police said the person who was shot was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening.
A woman looks towards a painting by Bob Dylan called "Endless Highway" on display at the exhibition called Bob Dylan The Beaten Path, at the Halcyon Gallery in London, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. The exhibition opens on Nov. ... .
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton came into her own Thursday in Reno. She spoke with righteous anger, painting her rival Donald Trump as a hate-monger beholden to white nationalist causes.