{"id":34358,"date":"2019-09-10T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=34358"},"modified":"2019-09-10T07:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:05:44","slug":"amy-sherald-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/10\/amy-sherald-2\/","title":{"rendered":"amy sherald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/10\/amy-sherald-2\/amysherald-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34360\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/amysherald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/amysherald.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/amysherald-203x1024.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sometimes the king is a woman&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; YES. That&#8217;s the title of the first painting in this post, and I could not love it more. This is the most recent work of American painter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amysherald.com\">Amy Sherald<\/a> and if you&#8217;re in New York, I know what you&#8217;re doing tonight! Amy&#8217;s latest show opens <strong>TONIGHT<\/strong>, September 10th \/ 6pm, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hauserwirth.com\">Hauser &amp; Wirth<\/a>. I\u00a0 have loved Amy&#8217;s work for years, and have written about her several times <em>{including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/use-it-or-lose-it\/\">having her on the podcast<\/a>, and oh yes, when <a href=\"https:\/\/npg.si.edu\/object\/npg_NPG.2018.15\">she painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama<\/a>}<\/em>, and she just keeps getting more amazing. Case in point, here&#8217;s why she does what she does:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I look at America\u2019s heart \u2014 people, landscapes, and cityscapes \u2014 and I see it as an opportunity to add to an American art narrative\u2026 I paint because I am looking for versions of\u00a0 myself in art history and in the world.&#8221;\u2014Amy Sherald<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The show runs until October 26th, 2019. GO!<\/p>\n<h5><em>{Bio photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/melaniedunea\/\">Melanie Dunea}<\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometimes the king is a woman&#8221; &#8230; YES. That&#8217;s the title of the first painting in this post, and I could not love it more. This is the most recent work of American painter\u00a0Amy Sherald and if you&#8217;re in New York, I know what you&#8217;re doing tonight! Amy&#8217;s latest show opens TONIGHT, September 10th \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34358"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34366,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358\/revisions\/34366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}