Shepard Fairey's Obama Lands a Spot in the National Portrait Gallery

When Time‘s managing editor calls a piece of your work “the great populist image of the campaign,” you know you’re headed for something big. What’s sure to be a pretty good trade off for having been repeatedly stolen from for the past year, Shepard Fairey is seeing his Barack Obama image inducted into the National Portrait Gallery, which the museum is hoping to get hung up before inauguration fever sweeps Washington D.C. over the next couple of weeks.