Is the article “White House Art: Colors From a World of Black and White” by Holland Cotter a feature story?

The article “White House Art: Colors From a World of Black and White” by Holland Cotter is a feature story. At the beginning of the article, the author begins to talk about a list of paintings Obama had in his presidential home, the list of painting includes Jasper Johns’s, Ed Ruscha’s, and other famous artists’ works. The article doesn’t immediately begin with topic subject. These are just soft lead, but there is a transitional paragraph talks about Alma W. Thomas, and that is Cotter actually wants to talk about. He wants readers pay particularly attention to only one artist, Alma W. Thomas.
This article doesn’t look like any other news articles which have the answers to the five W’s—who, what, when, where, why, how. The author uses narrative writing style to describe the life of Alma W. Thomas. He gives detail information about Alma W. Thomas’s life and her career. Thomas was born in Columbus, and she taught art for thirty-five years and began her new career as a painter of abstracts in her age of sixty-nine. Alma W. Thomas was the first African-America woman to have a solo at the Whitney Museum and had several retrospectives. When he fully described Alma W. Thomas’s life and how she dealt with racial problem. At the end of the article, Cotter has given some opinions to the Obama White House: “forward-looking without being radical; post-racial but also race-conscious;…”