National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC)

Digitized Silhouette Portraits Shed Light on 19th Century Life

The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects.

April 29, 2023

Portraits of Serena and Venus Williams, Ava DuVernay Coming to the Smithsonian

Serena and Venus Williams and Ava DuVernay, and the artists who portrayed them, talk about their choices, which will be on view at the National Portrait Gallery.

November 1, 2022

Painting Michelle Obama Took 9 Months. Keeping it Secret Took 6 Years.

Sharon Sprung, an instructor at the Art Students League of New York, is a realist painter of the old school.

September 7, 2022

To Diversify, the National Portrait Gallery is Adding Performances

The National Portrait Gallery is embracing live performance to highlight American stories missing from its halls.

April 27, 2022

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Digitized Silhouette Portraits Shed Light on 19th Century Life

Portraits of Serena and Venus Williams, Ava DuVernay Coming to the Smithsonian

Painting Michelle Obama Took 9 Months. Keeping it Secret Took 6 Years.

To Diversify, the National Portrait Gallery is Adding Performances