Amy Sherald’s Portrait of Breonna Taylor Has Been Jointly Acquired by the Smithsonian and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, have jointly acquired Amy Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor, originally created for the cover of Vanity Fair. Taylor was asleep in bed on March 13, 2020, when police officers forced their way into her apartment and fatally shot the