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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced that it will honor four prominent Americans with the prestigious ...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of existence, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will host the one-room exhibition, This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the ...
Catriona Kendall, Editor The National Portrait Gallery most notably houses images of every previous president, allowing visitors to reminisce about each political figure as they progress through ...
When planning exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, our historians and curators carefully select what will be displayed in the galleries, considering hundreds of possible images for each ...
These three photographs present individuals in the National Portrait Gallery collection who have laid the groundwork for the likes of Missy Franklin, Kelly Slater, and the Williams sisters.
It is no surprise, then, that presidential portraiture has been a major collecting concern at the National Portrait Gallery ever since it opened its doors in 1968. The media for presidential imagery ...
When a Mom Needs Help, Does Anyone Show? The Eternal City Abides The National Portrait Gallery in D.C. flubs it in honoring the Covid lockdown’s high priest. A couple of art-news stories are ...
Below you'll find a few of our favourite things you can buy right now in the National Portrait Gallery Shop. But it's well worth going there yourself and having a rummage (though if that's tricky ...