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The artwork is being loaned to museums across the country as part of the gallery’s two-year “Across the Nation” initiative ...

Moira Cameron has been awarded first prize in the 2025 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award for her contemplative and boldly executed self-portrait, A Life Lived. The large-scale canvas, a ...

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

“The term homosexual was coined in 1869,” says Jonathan D. Katz, the co-curator, along with art historian Johnny Willis, of The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939.

Part of the Scottish National Gallery will be turned into a 'pop-up' cinema in August for the Edinburgh International Film Festival. (Image: Gillian Hayes) ...

The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will display this circa-1790 portrait of George Washington by American artist Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), who portrays the general as the victor of the ...

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It features nearly 75 prints, drawings and paintings alongside some 60 objects from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, together with a film by artist Dario Robleto.

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

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June 13: National Portrait Gallery Director Steps Down Kim Sajet. Photo: Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty Images.