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National Portrait Gallery Presents “From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years”
News Release
05.20.2025
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
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National Portrait Gallery Announces Jamie Dimon, Temple Grandin, Joy Harjo and Steven Spielberg To Receive Museum’s 2025 Portrait of a Nation Award
News Release
04.23.2025
Portrait Gallery
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National Portrait Gallery To Install Photograph of President-elect Donald J. Trump Before Inauguration
News Release
01.13.2025
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
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National Portrait Gallery Premieres Season Six of PORTRAITS Podcast
News Release
10.22.2024
Portrait Gallery Public Programs Education News
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National Portrait Gallery Announces Artist List and Prizewinners for Museum’s Seventh Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
News Release
10.08.2024
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
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National Portrait Gallery Announces “Amy Sherald: American Sublime”
News Release
09.16.2024
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
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National Portrait Gallery Announces Teen Portrait Competition Timed With Museum’s “The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today” Exhibition
News Release
08.26.2024
Portrait Gallery Public Programs
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National Portrait Gallery Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and Día de Los Muertos
News Release
08.15.2024
Portrait Gallery Public Programs
“Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return” Exhibition
Media Fact Sheet
07.11.2024
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National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art Present “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return”
News Release
07.11.2024
Archives of American Art Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
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National Portrait Gallery Names Diana Movius Its Next Choreographer-in-Residence
News Release
07.09.2024
Portrait Gallery Administrative News
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National Portrait Gallery Acquires Earliest Known Photograph of a US First Lady
News Release
07.01.2024
Portrait Gallery New Acquisitions

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