Sometimes The King Is A Woman: The Paintings Of Amy Sherald

Amy Sherald’s show at Hauser & Wirth in New Yorkwhich I regret to say will close October 26th, is a joy to behold and a revelation. Go see it, if you still can!
Sherald is perhaps best known for her portrait of Michele Obama which can be seen at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. In that portrait, Sherald invests an authority and a greatness that becomes Obama. So much so that Parker Curry, an African-American toddler, gazing up at the portrait at the Museum broke the internet and has n…