National Portrait Gallery
Highlights
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Amy Sherald: American Sublime
Opens September 19, 2025
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present Amy Sherald: American Sublime, the largest, most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date. Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), “American Sublime” is the artist’s first major museum survey, bringing together paintings made from 2007 to the present. -
Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection
To mark the 2024 presidential election year, this exhibition features some of the earliest photographic images of eleven men who attained the nation’s highest office.
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First Thursdays: Come Look with Us
First Thursdays: Come Look with Us
Thursday, June 5
5:30 – 6:15 pm
Free. Registration Suggested. -
Star Power: Saturday Movie Matinee
Star Power: Saturday Movie Matinee
Saturday, July 19, 2:00 pm.
Free. Registration encouraged. -
PORTRAITS podcast
Ep. 12
Asteroid Strike
How a skinny layer of clay unlocked the mystery of a mass extinction -
Walk-In Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Daily | 12:00 – 1:00 & 2:30 – 3:30 pm
