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Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we ...
Amy Sherald claims the museum was planning to cut a portrait of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from the exhibition.
Amy Sherald withdrew “American Sublime” from the National Portrait Gallery, saying the Smithsonian proposed replacing her ...
The D.C. National Guard is stepping in to help keep Fourth of July celebrations safe and smooth—here’s how they’re teaming up with MPD.
A new, White House-provided portrait of President Donald Trump will soon hang in the Colorado State Capitol after an earlier painting was removed following a complaint by Trump.
A man is in custody after he sped through the grass and dirt pathways of the National Mall in an SUV, according to U.S. Park Police.
A man is in custody after he sped through the grass and dirt pathways of the National Mall in an SUV, according to U.S. Park Police.
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes ...
The display is in a similar spot as a sculpture of a large poop pile on a desk, referencing attacks on the Capitol that happened Jan. 6, 2021, that appeared in October.
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.