All posts tagged "national portrait gallery"
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Museums & Galleries: Spring Arts Preview 2023
The D.C.-area's museums and galleries are back in full swing and as fine as form as ever, with hundreds of exhibits.
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Dana Soon Tai Burgess Creates Portraits in Motion
Dana Tai Soon Burgess celebrates his 30th season with the release of a memoir and the debut of his latest work for the National Portrait...
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Fall Arts Preview 2022: Museums and Galleries
Fine and visual arts exhibits throughout the Washington, D.C. metro area for autumn and winter of 2022.
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Editor’s Pick: The Outwin 2022 at The National Portrait Gallery
Every three years, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery showcases finalists of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, named for a late benefactor. The 2022 edition offers...
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Out On the Town: Picks of the Week (Jan. 7-12, 2022)
A new look for Kramers, a dance celebrating George Takei, dueling Irish banjos, streaming film festivals, and more.
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DC’s biggest and most popular museums start to reopen
National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Portrait Gallery, and Renwick Gallery are all reopening.
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Gallery: Eye to I — Self-Portraits From 1900 to Today
More than 75 works examining the range of ways artists have chosen to portray themselves
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Marlene Dietrich pioneered “embracing bisexuality without apology”
The National Portrait Gallery examines Marlene Dietrich's profound influence on queer identity
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Spotlight: The Outwin 2016 at the National Portrait Gallery
The Outwin 2016 rewards portraits that have forged an "emotional and psychological connection" with subjects
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Sylvia Rivera photo installed in National Portrait Gallery
Transgender activist Sylvia Rivera, one of the leaders in the early days of the LGBT rights movement, has become the first transgender person to have...
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Five spaces to “chill” during your tours of area museums
Five spaces to “chill” during your tours of area museums
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The National Portrait Gallery’s look at portraiture in the age of abstraction
The National Portrait Gallery presents “Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction,” an exhibit featuring the works of a group of young artists in the...
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MOW50: 5 Things to See and Do
“There’s so much going on in the days leading up to the 28th,” Terri Harris Reed of the George Washington University tells Metro Weekly. She’s...
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A Queen's Hidden Treasures
1. Dorothy's Ruby SlippersSmithsonian National Museum of American History 2. Hope Diamond and National Gem CollectionSmithsonian National Museum of Natural History 3. Salon DoréCorcoran Gallery...
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Sapphic Glances
''The two women were very public as a same-sex couple,'' says art historian Wanda M. Corn of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. '' they...
