The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. invites artists from across the U.S. to submit portraiture for consideration in its seventh triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
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The official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama were unveiled yesterday at the National Portrait Gallery, marking America’s first African-American first couple which were depicted by the first African-American artists…
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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced that former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama have selected the artists who will paint their portraits for its Portrait Gallery’s…
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British abstract painter Howard Hodgkin died today at the age of 84, reports The Guardian. Well-known for his vivid colors and broad brushstrokes that often crept out onto the frame,…
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Summer special! Rainey Knudson travels to Washington D.C. and gets the scoop from the city’s art insiders on what to see when you visit the nation’s capital.
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There are a lot of institutions, programs, and people seriously affected in all sorts of ways by the government shutdown, which started today. Affecting the art world is the closing…
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Lee Rosenbaum’s Culturegrrl blog reports that an unnamed conservative congressman went to bat for the Smithsonian’s right to show A Fire in My Belly by David Wojnarowicz, relieving some of…