More details have emerged surrounding the resignation of Kim Sajet, the former director of the Smithsonian-run National ...

President Trump’s impeachments were mentioned in an exhibit on the American presidency that museum officials said was ...

Pierre Louis Alexandre, a dockworker who modeled at the art academy on the side, appeared in painting after painting. Karin ...

Amy Sherald, the former Baltimore artist who painted former first lady Michelle Obama’s portrait, has withdrawn her solo show ...

The artist says leaders at the National Portrait Gallery suggested removing her painting of a non-binary transgender person ...

President Donald Trump said he was sacking the longtime director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, on Friday, ending the 12-year tenure of the first woman to serve as ...

Mathew Brady, known as the father of photojournalism for his documentation of the Civil War, also won acclaim for nuanced ...

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, is part of the Smithsonian Institution, which is the world’s largest museum complex, including 21 museums and the National Zoo.

Washington's museums like the National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn have not had their collections sold off to give the ...

Amy Sherald has withdrawn her solo exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns that her ...

According to her biography on the National Portrait Gallery website, Sajet was the first woman to serve as director of the Smithsonian’s art museum in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, per the bio ...