Barack Obama

The Making of an Icon

Arts, Culture & Media

Art played a bigger role in this presidential election than ever before. Especially that heroic red-white-and-blue image of Barack Obama. You know the one. It’s by a street artist named Shepard Fairey. WNYC’s Siddhartha Mitter talked to him and some other Obama image makers, who confessed that victory puts them in a tricky situation.

Voicemails for Barack: Part IV

Arts, Culture & Media

Voicemails for Barack: Part III

Arts, Culture & Media

“Are You There, Barack? It’s Me, Artist.”

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

At the Sound of the Beep

Arts, Culture & Media

Brian Williams Raps, Game of Thrones Maps, and More

Arts, Culture & Media

Also, the ultimate Game of Thrones nerd makes an interactive map, and a light show in the sky.

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Joanna Newsom makes beautiful music, shade balls fill the L.A. Reservoir, and Tom Brady looks really bad to win the internet this week.  

Vitali Shkliarov

Meet the man who volunteered for Obama, worked for Bernie and is now consulting Putin’s opponent

Global Politics

Vitali Shkliarov was mesmerized by Barack Obama’s Berlin speech in 2008, though he didn’t speak English at the time. Shkliarov went on to work for Obama and then Bernie Sanders. Now he’s an adviser in the Russian elections.

U.S. President Barack Obama greets an adoring crowd in Cannes, France on November 4, 2011.

The French have been desperate for Obama to get involved in their politics. He just did.

Global Politics

President Barack Obama is a superstar in France. French voters even wish he were the one running.

Former President and First Lady Michelle Obama dance together at the Governors Ball in 2009.

Reflecting on eight years of Obama’s executive actions and ‘dad jeans’

Arts

Cintra Wilson, who has written about clothing and power in Washington, DC, discusses Obama’s grace — even in the face of bad denim — and what baseball caps say about Trump’s administration.