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  • Portrait Gallery Highlights, Spring 2017
Portrait of Walter Alvarez.
Ep. 12

Asteroid Strike

with Kirk Johnson and Taína Caragol

Portrait Gallery Highlights, Spring 2017

A recap of 2016, so far, at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery tells the history of America through individuals who have shaped its culture. Through the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the American story.

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Ep. 11 | Holiday Special: Music's Role with Renée Fleming
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Ep. 10 | Self Made with Janine Sherman Barrois and Elle Johnson
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Ep. 9 | Bataan's Boogaloo with Edouardo Diaz
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Ep. 8 | The Rockefeller Pose with LL Cool J and Richard Ormond
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Ep. 7 | Getting Real with Robert McCurdy
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Ep. 6 | Seeing Truth with Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
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Ep. 4 | Focusing on Ruben Salazar with Taína Caragol
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Ep. 2 | At Home in the Gallery: The Dempsey-Willard Fight with Briana Zavadil White
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Ep. 5 | Painting Through a President's Assassination with Brandon Brame Fortune
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Ep. 1 | Will Rogers: Removing the Sting with Jim Barber
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Ep. 3 | Growing Younger with Harriet Tubman with Carla Hayden and Kasi Lemmons
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| Season 2 with Kim Sajet

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