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Catriona Kendall, Editor The National Portrait Gallery most notably houses images of every previous president, allowing visitors to reminisce about each political figure as they progress through ...
Britain’s National Portrait Gallery reopened Thursday after a three-year, $53-million renovation. Raising the money in the current climate was tough. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London On a ...
“Portrait Mode,” which runs at the Concord Museum through Feb. 23, is very much alert to how portraiture can be more involved than it seems. The title of the show, curated by the museum’s ...
By Annie Aguiar The National Portrait Gallery bought the earliest known photograph of an American first lady for more than six times the estimated auction price, adding the recently surfaced ...
Artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald also took their place in history as the first African Americans to be commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to create such pieces. “The Obama ...
A portrait by the Boston artist, Jacob Binder, will be presented by the Boston Jewish community to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The portrait which is entitled “The Talmudist,” depicts an ...
A fundraising campaign has been set up to restore a historical portrait of King Henry VIII. Warwickshire's museum service wants to display the Tudor painting at the Market Hall Museum in Warwick.
When a conservator at a British museum removed a board at the back of a prominent Norman Cornish artwork for an upcoming exhibition, he made a “magical” discovery: On the reverse was a self ...
The faces of the world are showcased in proud portraits hung on the walls of Orlando Museum of Art in a new exhibition that highlights the diverse fabric of the Orlando community. The 22 people ...