Newspaper Art Critics Rush to Defend ‘Rock-Solid Cool’ of Obama Portraits

<p>While traditionalists surely looked quizzically at the contemporary portraits that Barack and Michelle Obama commissioned for display in the National Portrait Gallery, one could count on The Washington Post and The New York Times to explain how wonderfully revolutionary the Obamas were to promote African-American painters to overturn the “bland propriety” of white traditions. </p>

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