It’s a free country, and if Barack Obama’s campaign wants to make money from posters ($70 a pop!) designed by the artist Shepard Fairey, they can go right ahead. (The candidate himself thanked ...

So it didn’t surprise Shepard Fairey, the Los Angeles street artist whose ‘Hope’ poster of Barack Obama thrust him into the political spotlight, when he learned his work had been remade.

of the sort created by former San Francisco artist Shepard Fairey, they had to figure there'd be lots of cute kitties, puppies, and babies and no end to words that rhyme with “hope.” Well, there are.

In a conversation hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago, where the official portraits have just arrived, former First Lady Michelle Obama and artist Amy Sherald discussed their instant connection ...

The very familiar "HOPE" poster of President Barack Obama and the photograph that inspired it are now the focus of a copyright battle headed to federal court.

Obama Foundation/Art Institute of Chicago She and the President kept an open mind about who would paint their portraits – “until Amy walked in,” she said.