Flipboard Art & Photo DeskArtist Amy Sherald has canceled her Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery show, "American Sublime," amid discussions of removing a painting that shows a trans woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty. Sherald told The New York Times that the Smithsonian planned to replace the work with a video of people reacting to the painting. "The video would have opened up for debate the value of trans visibility," she said. A spokeswoman for the Smithsonian told @npr that the video was to be added to the show, not to replace the painting. Sherald, who is best known for her painting of Michelle Obama, would have been the first contemporary Black artist to receive a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
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