Amy Sherald

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Amy Sherald |Francoise Mouly

The artist Amy Sherald is known for her stirring portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, and often uses grayscale to complicate representations of race in portraiture. In Sherman’s first cover for the magazine, for the March 24, 2025, issue, the woman is rendered in Sherman’s signature style but the viewer’s eye is initially drawn to a large tea cup in the foreground.