An exhibition examines how art was affected by the idea of sexual identity. Its curators say the show has run into resistance at home and abroad.

Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in favour of alternative media such as photography, video and installations, the artist stuck to her guns and, unapologetically, worked on canvases as large as ...

Moira Cameron has been awarded first prize in the 2025 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award for her contemplative and boldly executed self-portrait, A Life Lived. The large-scale canvas, a ...

President Donald Trump fired the National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet for being a “strong supporter” of diversity, ...

A newly acquired 1790 portrait of George Washington is now on permanent display at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown ...

Beginning July 4, the portrait will be on display in the Declaration of Independence rotunda at the American Revolution ...

The artwork is being loaned to museums across the country as part of the gallery’s two-year “Across the Nation” initiative ...

National Portrait Gallery director steps down, weeks after Trump claimed he fired her According to the Smithsonian's Chief Spokesperson Linda St. Thomas, the director exiting the museum voluntarily.

As predicted, Donald Trump’s attempt at flexing his might at The Smithsonian is hitting some snarls; plus, Blake takes The Odeon, and more in this week’s column.

The Smithsonian affirmed its autonomy in a statement on Monday after President Donald Trump announced that he had fired the head of the National Portrait Gallery.

The Smithsonian says it retains the authority over personnel such as the director of the National Portrait Gallery, whose firing the president had announced.

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.