The National Portrait Gallery hosted its 250th Festival on Saturday, transforming its typical Presidents Day celebration into a broader commemoration of America’s approaching 250th birthday.

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. Through Wednesday ...

A portrait of Oprah Winfrey was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday. Shawn Michael Warren can thank the mural for connecting him with his very famous muse. Three years ...

The painted portrait from President Trump’s first term was completed more than four years ago, but never unveiled. Now he ...

The most striking moments in Kameron Neal’s 2023 video installation “Down the Barrel (of a Lens)” are freeze-frame shots of people on the street, protesting war, racial inequality and abuses of state ...

The National Portrait Gallery removed a swath of text that mentioned President Donald Trump’s two impeachments and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week.

"Published to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, October 4, 2019 to January 12, 2020, and at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, February 28 to ...

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