Idris Khan’s Sky of Hope is in The Wall Street Journal’s roundup of artworks to see inside the Obama Presidential Center

'The Wall Street Journal asked Louise Bernard, the museum’s director, and Virginia Shore, the curator behind the commissioned art, for a guide to nine must-see pieces.'

'Inspired by Obama’s speech commemorating a famed 1965 civil rights march in Alabama, Khan turned text excerpts into custom stamps to create a ceiling installation in which ink-blue phrases appear to “cascade down walls like water,” Shore said.'

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Image: Idris Khan, The Sky Room at The Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago, Illinois
Courtesy The Obama Foundation

 

June 16 2026