re: #179 Ian MacGregor

I don’t understand why the choosing of the piece is newsworthy at all. There is no accounting for taste and I don’t think the country expects its presidents to be familiar with the great catalogue of paintings produced over the centuries. Its absolutely asinine to use this painting to criticize the president.

All the pieces they chose came from the National Gallery’s collections. Michelle worked with the NG curators to select what they’re going to display in the White House. I imagine Barak’s view of the matter was “whatever you pick out is fine with me, dear.”

I didn’t like any of their selections, but that’s just me.
This is more my kind of thing.