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As President Donald Trump tries to fire the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Julian Raven is holding out hope that his work will be recognized more and more.
Aerial view of the Mall taken from the Washington Monument looking towards the Capitol. On the right is the United States Department of Agriculture Building (built in 1868 and razed in 1930) and the ...
A view of the castle before it was partially destroyed during the 2015 civil war. Abal Saber via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 ...
This image was most likely taken from the tower of the Smithsonian Institution "Castle" Building, which sits on the south side of the National Mall opposite the Natural History Museum. The geographic ...
As President Donald Trump tries to fire the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Julian Raven is holding out hope that his work will be recognized more and more.
Barricades are set up around a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter parked on display on the National Mall near the Smithsonian Castle, June 11, 2025 in Washington.
First light in London. At the top of Westminster Abbey’s northwest tower, Lee Robinson welcomes a new morning in a 1,000-year-old history by performing one of the building’s quieter rituals ...
From afar, it kind of looks like an early 20th-century English dollhouse because it's perfectly symmetrical and boasts immaculate landscaping in the front ... and the Smithsonian Institution Building ...
S.J. Hauck Construction is removing the sandstone bricks from the former church, which are from the same quarry as those used ...
ATLANTIC CITY — Outside the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Pennsylvania and Pacific Avenues, Benjamin Rojas, 32, described the pride he took in demolishing this 19th-century building.
The Smithsonian Institution on Monday emphasized its “nonpartisan stature” and said “all personnel decisions” are made by its secretary more than a week after President Donald Trump said ...