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National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet Speaks to a New Podcast Series, PORTRAITS
National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet speaks to the museum’s new podcast series, PORTRAITS. Kim Sajet Washington D.C. has often been referred to as a “bubble,” a world of politics ...
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Museum director’s portrait raises big questions
The recently retired director of the National Museum of the American Indian spent $48,500 in museum money to commission a portrait of himself and selected a non-Indian artist to create it ...
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BBC Collections - Director-General portraits
Like many large public service institutions in Britain, the BBC at one time commissioned portraits of its most senior leader. In the BBC hierarchy that person is the Director-General. Sadly ...
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National Portrait Gallery Announces Winner of the 2024 Director’s Essay Prize for Scholars in the Field of Portraiture
Founded in 2019, the Director’s Essay Prize fosters leading research in the field of visual biography and American portraiture. The 2024 prize was juried by PORTAL, the Portrait Gallery’s ...
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Portrait of celebrated actor and director José Ferrer, Class of 1933, unveiled at Princeton
A portrait of the pathbreaking actor and director José Ferrer, a member of Princeton University’s Class of 1933, was unveiled on campus May 9 in a ceremony in Chancellor Green Rotunda. Ferrer, who ...