Hosted by the museum’s director, Kim Sajet, PORTRAITS explores art, biography, history and identity.

Moreover, the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have ...

I get chills recalling the sheer power of art that I felt in this room at the National Portrait Gallery, as if the genius loci of Washington, D.C. was standing next to me like a ghost.

“The Time Is Always Now” is a touring exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London, where Eshun is ...

This is the largest presentation of the late artist's work in Washington, D.C., in 30 years. View through July 6, 2025.

the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Asian Art Museum) are free to the public. But plenty of other major museums across the country also have free ...

A trio of new art exhibitions, including an "unprecedented" collaboration with the world-famous Royal Academy, are set to ...

This is where manual labor meets the sublime. Art handlers, movers and preparators are among the few people who actually get ...

The Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover ... of prestigious institutions like the National Portrait Gallery, is known for fusing African American and Japanese cultures with elements of hip ...

Marginalized for decades, key works by some of the country’s most renowned painters finally take their rightful place in the museum’s permanent collection. At a National Gallery of Art ...

The new wing at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, also known as the M. (Isabella Caswell / Pioneer Press) In the first room of the new wing, the Gregory K. Page and Carole B. Howe Gallery ...