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How a curator unlocked the secrets in an arsenic-laced portrait album

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Celebrate Women's History Month with "Women of a Certain Age"

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Historic Lincoln Portrait Goes on View in February

Michael Hussey

National Portrait Gallery Announces Michael Hussey as Its New Director of History

Peter Cooper and Family, unidentified daguerreotypist, three-quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied color, c. 1850. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

“Family Ties: Daguerreotype Portraits” and “Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples”

Septima Poinsette Clark by Brian Lanker, gelatin silver print, 1987. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Partial gift of Lynda Lanker, and museum purchase with the support of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Agnes Gund, Kate Kelly and George Schweitzer, Lyndon J. Barrois and Janine Sherman Barrois, and Mark and Cindy Aron. Copyright Brian Lanker Archive.

“I Dream a World: Selections From Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women”

National Portrait Gallery Announces Season Four of Its PORTRAITS Podcast

“Birthright” (still) by Maren Hassinger, 2005. Single-channel video (color, sound), 12:12 mins. Edition of 5 plus 2 artist’s proofs. Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.

National Portrait Gallery Announces Premiere of “Birthright” by Artist Maren Hassinger

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Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company to Debut Two New Performances

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National Portrait Gallery Extends 'The Obama Portraits Tour' to San Francisco and Boston

Portrait of a Nation award

National Portrait Gallery Announces 2022 Portrait of a Nation Honorees

Credit: “Left Side Right Side” (still) by Joan Jonas, 1972. Single-channel video (black-and-white, sound), 8:50 min. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © 2020 Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels (left). Alice Walker by Bernard Gotfryd, gelatin silver print, 1976. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © The Bernard Gotfryd Revocable Living Trust (center). Louis Armstrong (detail) by Philippe Halsman, gelatin silver print, 1966 (printed 1998). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Betsy Karel). The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. In 2014, the works from the Corcoran Collection were distributed to institutions in Washington, D.C. © Philippe Halsman Archive (right).

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Announces Virtual Programs for January and February

Credit: Kim Sajet, Director of the National Portrait Gallery and host of “PORTRAITS.”

National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet Speaks to a New Podcast Series, PORTRAITS

Eleanor Roosevelt by Bernard T. Frydrysiak, 1946; Oil on canvas; Ford and Marni Roosevelt

First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt

Neil Simon by David Hume Kennerly, 1986. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Time magazine; © David Hume Kennerly

Neil Simon (1927–2018)

Young Jewess Arriving at Ellis Island / Lewis Wikes Hine / 1905 / Courtesy Alan Klotz Gallery / Photocollect, Inc. / New York City

Starting at the Source: Lewis Hine and Labor

Sarah Weston Seaton with Her Children Augstine and Julia / Charles Bird King / c. 1815 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Bequest of Armida B. Colt

Sarah Weston Seaton and Washington, DC, Around 1815

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