The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced its 2025 Teen Portrait Competition, which is open to students between the ages of 13 and 17 residing in the U.S. and its territories. Teens ...

When the National Portrait Gallery was created by an act of Congress in 1962, the authorizing legislation defined portraiture as “painted or sculptured likenesses.” And when it referred to the ...

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 ...

A newly acquired 1790 portrait of George Washington is now on permanent display at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown ...

The president on Friday said he terminated National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet. Meanwhile, his budget proposes slashing the Smithsonian’s Anacostia and Latino museums, according to an ...

The Allentown Art Museum agreed to give up “Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony,” following a claim made by the family of Henry and Hertha Bromberg, who fled Germany in 1938.

President Trump got his way Friday, just not on his terms. Two weeks after Trump said he fired the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery director, Kim Sajet, she stepped down of her own accord ...

Two decades ago, when Nicholas Cullinan worked part time as a visitor-services assistant at London’s National Portrait Gallery, one of his least favorite parts of the job was the uniform.

All presidential portraits in the National Portrait Gallery were paid for by private money through the museum, St. Thomas said. The Obama portraits made headlines at the time of their release for ...

Visitors tour the "America's Presidents" exhibition where portraits of Presidents Donald J. Trump, William J. Clinton, Barack Obama and George W. Bush are on display June 9, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

The Smithsonian has issued a statement supporting Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch following President Trump's claim that he fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery.

On a hunch, a conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum had an early Cézanne still life scanned using x-ray imaging, which showed a painted-over portrait by the Modern master ...