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Anti-Oil Activists Block Entrance of National Portrait Gallery to Protest BP Sponsorship

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky June 11, 2019

Dozens of protesters blocked entry to the gallery for guests of the ceremony, linking arms and chaining themselves to the gallery gates. Guests were forced to climb over the wall with the assistance of security in order to enter the gallery.

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Artists Affiliated with Prestigious Portrait Prize Call on National Portrait Gallery to End BP Sponsorship

Avatar photo by Zachary Small June 10, 2019

“There should be no role for an oil company in the artistic decisions of any cultural organization,” wrote the competition judge, artist Gary Hume, “and especially not in determining the winner of the world’s leading portrait award.”

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Tate Will No Longer Accept Donations from the Sackler Family, Setting New Precedent

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber March 21, 2019September 11, 2019

The major decision comes just days after London’s National Portrait Gallery decided to not accept a $1.3 million donation from the Sackler Trust.

Posted inOpinion

Artist Sues Smithsonian After It Declined to Display His 16-Foot Painting of Trump

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 18, 2019March 19, 2019

Reportedly, the National Portrait Gallery’s director told Julian Raven the painting was “too political,” “too big,” and “no good.”

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Nan Goldin Says She’ll Boycott National Portrait Gallery If It Accepts £1M Sackler Donation

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber February 19, 2019June 3, 2019

Goldin says she was invited to host a retrospective of her work at the National Portrait Gallery but will refuse to participate if they accept the hefty donation from the Sackler family.

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Photographing the Women of British Art

Avatar photo by Tim Keane January 19, 2019January 18, 2019

Mayotte Magnus’s Illuminating Women features stage actors, novelists, artists, editors, and publishers whose breakthroughs coincided with the Feminist movement of the 1970s.

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Obama Portraits Double Annual Attendance at the National Portrait Gallery

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber October 5, 2018October 5, 2018

As the museum approaches its 50th anniversary on October 7, the Smithsonian gallery announced it saw two million visitors this fiscal year.

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An Outline of Over 200 Years of Silhouettes

by Claire Voon August 14, 2018August 15, 2018

The oldest object on view documents an ugly reality, showing on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the US, accompanied by a bill of sale.

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Titus Kaphar and Ken Gonzales-Day Reveal the Fictions in Depictions

Avatar photo by Cara Ober June 15, 2018August 12, 2018

Although both artists in Unseen critique omissions in the art historical cannon and offer compelling counter narratives, it is not enough to place their work in neighboring museum galleries and call it a show.

Posted inArt

The Obama Portraits and the History of African American Portraiture

by Steven Nelson March 14, 2018August 25, 2021

Like many African American portraitists, Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley represent the Obamas as themselves, and as more than themselves.

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It’s OK to Feel Ambivalent About Michelle Obama’s Official Portrait

by Chiquita Paschal February 15, 2018April 17, 2018

Too often, women of color are expected to support black artists in the abstract — sometimes at the expense of meaningful, critical dialogue.

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Obamas Open Up About Their Newly Unveiled Official Portraits

by Blair Murphy February 12, 2018February 14, 2018

At the unveiling this morning, Michelle Obama spoke about her “instant connection” with Amy Sherald, while Barack Obama said he asked Kehinde Wiley “to bring it down just a touch.”

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