According to the London newspaper The Times, a new U.S. president Barack Obama (Barack Obama) and his wife, Michelle (Michelle Obama) are going to decorate the walls of the White House works by famous contemporary artists.

The President and the First Lady has already hired a Los andzhelesskogo interior designer Michael Smith (Michael Smith), who must make their peace. They say he has already appealed to a number of directors of American museums in its request to advise any good works of modernists and post-war artists, who could be included in the president's collection. Spouses Obama, according to the news images of interest Jasper Johns (Jasper Johns), Ed Rushi (Ed Ruscha), and Robert Rauschenberg (Robert Rauschenberg).

Before the 1990's museums and collectors gave the Presidents of the artists who have died and at least 20 years before. With a tradition away, Hillary Clinton (Hillary Clinton), which is told to hang in the White House linen Willem de Kuninga (Willem de Kooning), who died in 1997. The predecessor of Obama, George Bush, Jr. (George Bush Jr.), However, does not like modern art: the years of «governance» residence of the Head of State decorated with paintings on the «western» topic.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru