The Art Institute of Chicago is welcoming two globally acclaimed portraits for an exhibition entitled The Obama Portraits this summer. Kehinde Wiley’s painting of President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama. The pair are on loan from the Smithsonian’s National ... More

The story of Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, later Empress Joséphine Bonaparte, reads like an epic screenplay: She was born in 1763 to an affluent sugar planting family on the French island of Martinique. At 16, Joséphine was sent across the ocean to France to marry the aristocratic son of ... More

A new biography of media tycoon Robert Maxwell, Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain’s Most Notorious Media Baron (Harper) by John Preston, documents a life riddled with ups and downs. These days, he’s more famous for being the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, ... More

An excerpt from the new biography Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight (Random House) by Julia Sweig explores the first lady’s immense success at celebrating the visual and performing arts in the White House and the groundwork she laid for the Smithsonian Institution to acquire ... More

Every Eye Is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery explores 250 years of first ladies, showcasing 60 portraits from Martha Washington to Laura Bush. Curated by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, the exhibition sheds light on the stories, personalities, hardships ... More

When DuJour Media's CEO and founder Jason Binn produced an exclusive photoshoot and interview with the current Vice President Kamala Harris in 2013, she had been California’s Attorney General for three years already. Her election in 2010 was so excruciatingly close that when she spoke ... More

It's January 2013, but unlike most people, California Attorney General Kamala Harris isn't talking about the coming year. Instead, she's speaking about the past: her election in 2010. That night, even many of her supporters doubted she'd win her bid to become California's next A.G.; in ... More

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passing, Jason Binn and DuJour Media took a look back at our 2018 winter cover story that truly celebrated the legend. Throughout the process of becoming RBG for her role in the 2018 film, On the Basis ... More