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 ...

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 ...

Sandy Nairne, the current director of the National Portrait Gallery is leaving the job early next year in order to pursue his writing and arts work, The Guardian reports. Nairne has been director ...

Margery Simkin is a casting director. Her job is to look at thousands ... The painting in question is a self-portrait Rembrandt made in the late 1630s, when the Dutch master was a young man ...

After 20 years at Frieze, Victoria Siddall has become the first woman to take the helm at the National Portrait Gallery. And there’s change afoot, finds Charlotte Metcalf Conversations At Scarfes Bar: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 was ...

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 ...