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The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. has the only complete collection of American presidential portraits outside of the White House available for public viewing, though it is unclear ...
Politics Donald Trump fires National Portrait Gallery director for being ‘strong supporter’ of DEI By Greg Wehner, Fox News Published May 30, 2025, 5:36 p.m. ET ...
The Smithsonian Institution asserted its independence Monday evening in a statement that could be read as a rejection of President Trump’s late-May firing of National Portrait Gallery Director ...
National Portrait Gallery director steps down, weeks after Trump claimed he fired her According to the Smithsonian's Chief Spokesperson Linda St. Thomas, the director exiting the museum voluntarily.
National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet is resigning from her post two weeks after President Trump tried to fire her and accused her of being “highly partisan” and supportive of diversity ...
Amy Sherald claims the museum was planning to cut a portrait of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from the exhibition.
Ujobai, right, board of trustees for the National Portrait Gallery, ceremonial ribbon cutting to present the life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln by artist W.F.K. Travers created in ...
President Trump fired the National Portrait Gallery director on Friday for being “highly partisan” and a “supporter” of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
President Donald Trump is terminating the director of the National Portrait Gallery, he announced on Truth Social Friday. In the post, he said he would be terminating Director Kim Sajet “upon ...