The exhibition of the Barack and Michelle Obama Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery has grown the museum’s attendance by leaps and bounds, with 1 million more tickets sold this past year than the year prior, the Washington Post reports. “I thought this is the closest that I’ll probably ever get to [Obama], and of what he represented — hope and love and progress,†says attendee Kamilah Chambers of Katy, Tex.
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