The Gainsborough portrait is currently ... “It was important to me that I had an accurate understanding of the lives lived and the historical context of the figures I’d chosen to bring to ...

Rapper LL Cool J lent this portrait of himself to the National Portrait Gallery for its 2023 show, “RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and ...

The president said he had fired the museum leader — setting up a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian.

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to assert control over an elite American cultural institution has turned into a ...

Traveling exhibitions bringing rare collections and celebrated art closer to Kansas, original immersive art installations and ...

World famous artist M.C. Escher kept the smile of Anna Frank's face very close to him in his working study for the rest of ...

Janice Frame, a renowned artist and longtime Island resident, conveys the radiance and strength of African people, as well as ...

Donald Trump fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery on Friday, claiming she was "highly partisan," as the US ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.

For Mir and Garfinkle, America’s reversion to “orality” underlies much of today’s political dysfunction. In their telling, ...