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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Presents “Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands”

Avatar photo by National Portrait Gallery August 26, 2021August 23, 2021

The exhibition will be on view from August 27, 2021 to May 30, 2022.

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Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Celebrates the Modern Portrait

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 25, 2019October 25, 2019

Hugo Crosthwaite, the first Latinx artist to receive the Outwin Boochever Portrait, won first prize for his animation of a woman’s journey from Tijuana, Mexico, to the United States.

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“Her Music, It Had a Message”: Visitors Remember Aretha Franklin at DC Museum

by Vanessa H. Larson August 20, 2018

Through Wednesday, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC is displaying a lithographic poster of Franklin by famed graphic designer Milton Glaser.

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Obama Portraits Bring Record Traffic to National Portrait Gallery

by Elena Goukassian April 2, 2018March 30, 2018

On March 24 alone, the day of the March For Our Lives, 35,968 people visited the museum.

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On Teaching Native American History Through the Smithsonian’s Presidential Portraits

by Elena Goukassian December 15, 2016December 15, 2016

The Native American performance artist DeLesslin George-Warren is giving walking tours of the National Portrait Gallery’s hall of presidential portraits with a focus on the history of indigenous American populations.

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Kevin Spacey Temporarily Joins George Washington at the National Portrait Gallery

by Margaret Carrigan April 5, 2016April 6, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC — In February, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled with presidential pomp a portrait of Kevin Spacey as Frank J. Underwood, dark prince of politics in the popular Netflix series House of Cards.

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Recurring Waves of Arrival: Elaine de Kooning’s Portraits, from Loft Dwellers to JFK

Avatar photo by Tim Keane April 11, 2015April 15, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC – “I was enslaved by portraits.” That’s how Elaine de Kooning puts it to filmmaker Betty Jane Thiebaud to describe what happened after her arduous and rewarding commission to paint President John F. Kennedy’s portrait for the Truman Library.

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Instant Illuminations: Elaine de Kooning’s Early Portraiture

Avatar photo by Tim Keane April 4, 2015April 3, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC — While at the retrospective of Elaine de Kooning’s portraiture here at the National Portrait Gallery, I recalled reflections by the late figurative painter Sherman Drexler at his loft in Newark a couple of years ago. “You paint your desire, you paint your passion,” he said.

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Smithsonian Joins Forces with 14 Museums to Pool Data on American Art

by Laura C. Mallonee February 6, 2015February 11, 2015

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has launched the American Art Collaborative, a consortium of 14 museums across the country coming together to create what you might call the art-world version of the Digital Public Library of America.

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