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"Maya Lin Connects Nature to a New Manhattan Skyscraper and Beyond."
by Jane L. Levere • May 10, 2026
"Art at The Obama Center: Raising the Future of Art and Possibility."
by Alison Reilly • May 6, 2026
"The Audacity of Art at the Obama Presidential Center."
by Robin Pogrebin • May 1, 2026
"Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center has art at its core"
by Gabriella Angeleti • April 9, 2026
"Obama Presidential Center announces new works by Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, and Lorna Simpson, among others."
by Maxwell Rabb • April 9, 2026
"The Obama Presidential Center is taking a big swing at contemporary art"
by Kyle MacMillan • March 19, 2026
"Inside the new Obama Presidential Center's art collection"
by Carrie Shepherd • March 16, 2026
"Mark Bradford, Carrie Mae Weems Among Latest Artists Commissioned by Obama Presidential Center"
by Leigh Anne Miller • February 6, 2026
"2026 Preview: 20 Museum Openings, Art Exhibitions, Fairs, and Biennials to Look Forward To"
by Alex Greenberger • January 2, 2026
"Living Archive: Theaster Gates’ new commission for the Obama Presidential Center returns historic images to Chicago's South Side"
by Sahir Ahmed • December 30, 2025
"Theaster Gates Tapped for Obama Presidential Center Installation Celebrating Ebony and Jet Image Archives"
by Tessa Solomon • December 16, 2025
"Artist Theaster Gates will create a monumental ode to Black beauty at the Obama Presidential Center"
by Jacqui Palumbo • December 16, 2025
"Kerry James Marshall on Making 'the Paintings Nobody Else Is Making'"
by Aruna D'Souza • September 25, 2025
"Artist Lindsay Adams’s Paintings Set Liberation in Motion"
by Daria Simone Harper • September 19, 2025
"Obama Center Commissions Jenny Holzer, Alison Saar, More for Art-Filled Campus"
by Eileen Kinsella • September 10, 2025
"Forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago Taps Two Artists for Major Commissions"
by Angelica Villa • April 22, 2025
"Spencer Finch and Lindsay Adams to create large-scale commissions for Obama Presidential Center"
by Leah Gallant • April 22, 2025
"Inside Thompson Palm Springs: The Hottest New Hotel For Coachella And Stagecoach 202"
by Amanda Lauren • April 7, 2025
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"Virginia Shore of Shore Art Advisory selected and commissioned pieces for the hotel that complement the layered design, color palette, textures, and mood of each space."
"Native Art Checks into the New Thompson Hotel"
by Sandra Hale Schulman • January 6, 2025
"Carrie Mae Weems’ 'Contested Sites of Memory' Sparks Dialogue On Monuments, Memory, And Racial Healing"
by Okla Jones • October 30, 2024
"Biennale Artist Jeffrey Gibson On Spirituality, Ecology in Politics and His Next Chapter"
By Dan Duray • September 25, 2024
"Jeffrey Gibson Records the Land’s Heartbeat in NYC Projections"
by Maya Pontone • September 24, 2024
"Jeffrey Gibson Launches Public Art Series in New York during Climate Week"
by Maxwell Rabb • September 17, 2024
"Julie Mehretu creates towering glass mural for Obama Presidential Center in Chicago"
by Ruth Lopez • September 9, 2024
"Julie Mehretu to Create 83-Foot-Tall Glass Mural for Obama Presidential Center"
by Alex Greenberger • September 9, 2024
"Julie Mehretu’s stained glass artwork enhances Tod Williams Billie Tsien–designed Obama Presidential Center"
by Daniel Jonas Roche • September 9, 2024
"Jeffrey Gibson, Indigenous U.S. Artist, Is Selected for Venice Biennale"
by Zachary Small • July 27 17, 2024
"This is the latest must-see exhibition in Oslo’s National Museum"
by Josefin Forsberg • November 7, 2022
"A new home for Munch's Scream: take a look inside Norway's half-a-billion pound mega museum"
by Lee Cheshire • June 6, 2022
"‘The time is now’: A debut exhibition of artworks around L.A. speak to climate crisis"
by Deborah Vankin • June 3, 2022
"A Monumental Bas-Relief Sculpture by Nick Cave Connects Senegalese and U.S. Cultures in a Web of Beadwork"
by Grace Ebert • March 22, 2021
"Jenny Holzer Helps Get Out the Vote and More: Morning Links from October 27, 2020"
October 27, 2020
"Bernie Sanders, Paul Rudd, Stacey Abrams, Jeff Tweedy, Margo Price Set for ‘Fridays for Unity’ Series to Drive Voter Turnout"
October 15, 2020
"Jenny Holzer’s Latest Body of Work Is a Call to Action for Voters"
by Marley Marius • October 16, 2020
"Democrats Sparred Over a Wine Cave Fund-Raiser. Its Billionaire Owner Isn’t Pleased."
by Carol Pogash and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs • December 20, 2019
"It takes only 6 minutes to be immersed in the immigrant experience"
by Philip Kennicott • March 23, 2018
"Trump Slams the New Art-Filled US Embassy in London Ahead of Its Opening"
by Javier Pes • January 12, 2018
"First look at Rachel Whiteread’s suburban house sculpture in London’s new US Embassy. Sections of an all-American home have been mounted on the walls"
by Gareth Harris • January 11, 2018
"Cultural Diplomacy: The State Department's Art in Embassies Program"
July 14, 2016
"How the State Department is Bringing American Art to the World"
by Kevin Conley • March 14, 2016
"New Kehinde Wiley Painting Commissioned for US Embassy in the Dominican Republic"
by Brianna McGurran • February 19, 2015
"Virginia Shore: Chief Curator, Art in Embassies- An Excavation of Site and Citation"
by Betty Nguyen • December 31, 2014
"U.S. State Department Art in Embassies and RISD Partnership for U.S. Embassy Morocco"
January 30, 2012
