Michelle paints herself as the queen of arts

The Times ^ | 5/24/2009 | Sarah Baxter

[bruinbirdman]

The US first lady is carving out a role as an unofficial culture secretary just months after her husband took office

AMERICA’S first lady, Michelle Obama, has added a new string to her bow as “minister of culture” in her husband’s administration.

The heads of New York’s most prestigious cultural institutions are in no doubt that she intends to play an active policy-making role in the arts world after they were summoned to meet her last week.

“She was speaking in a way the minister of culture would speak, even though such a position doesn’t exist in America,” said Peter Gelb, the manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. “It was as if she was almost an arts policy-maker on behalf of the White House and the president. It was highly unusual.”

Obama dazzled arts leaders when she attended the opening of the renovated American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last Monday in a purple V-neck dress designed by Isaac Mizrahi.

In traditional first lady mode, she cut a giant ribbon and toured the Egyptian Temple of Dendur, which her predecessor Jacqueline Kennedy secured for the museum in the 1960s. Tom Campbell, the British director of the Met, America’s foremost art gallery, was not only reminded of Kennedy but also of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

“She is so close to the centre of power, so smart and so striking that she could play an enormously influential role in directing attention to the arts,” Campbell said. “As with Diana, the combination of a reasoned message, delivered by someone of such grace and integrity, can achieve great things.”

From fashion icon and mom-in-chief to walker of Bo the dog and grower of organic vegetables in the White House garden, Obama has stayed in the

[bruinbirdman]

Perhaps The Obammuist can find some more taxpayer bucks in support of the arts.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

headline is code for

[Berlin_Freeper]

Queen of Abstract

[freekitty]

She is pretending to be Jackie Kennedy. Sorry Michelle; you are no Jackie Kennedy.

[Ezekiel]

Obama dazzled arts leaders when she attended the opening of the renovated American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last Monday in a purple V-neck dress designed by Isaac Mizrahi.

[OldArmy52]

No, they meant “Queen of Hearts”.
She starred in that role in “Alice in Wonderland”.
Wonderful personality fit it was.

[Ezekiel]

[LifeComesFirst]

Things never change. Another Yulia Mikhailovna for the progressives to fawn over.

[MaxMax]

I'm laughing because, I WANT THEIR TIT'S SMALLER!
Make them point to the ground!

[Venturer]

Culture? What’s dat?

[RushLake]

Hmmm, you can put lipstick on a pig, but its still a pig. I seem to remember hearing that in the recent past. Fits here I think.

[Caipirabob]

AMERICA’S first lady, Michelle Obama, has added a new string to her bow as “minister of culture” in her husband’s administration.

IF that's culture, we're going to need a bigger petri dish...

[Rome2000]

From fashion icon and mom-in-chief to walker of Bo the dog

Fashion icon?

Commie bitch dresses like a bag lady.

[television is just wrong]

Obama says there ain’t no mo money

she may as well, she can’t practice law any more. been disbarred.

[chainsaw]

Michelle paints herself as the queen of farts.

Fixed.

[Free Vulcan]

Culture minister? She is so unbelievably ghetto I wince everytime I see press coverage of her public appearances. A shoeless backwood hick from the bayou has more graces than this woman.

[Ezekiel]

Scary purple monster ping.

[EBH]

Need a side by side here. LOL.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2257058/posts

[Dallas59]

"Hey lady...can I sleep in here tonight???"

[wiggen]

unbelievably commie sounding. minister of culture decides what you will and will not be permitted to see.