The past year has not been a very good one for Australian museums and galleries, or indeed for performing companies, as my colleague in these pages Rosemary Neill has recently explained (November 29).

A historic portrait of George Washington is being auctioned off next month. It's among the paintings that inspired the first president's image on the $1 bill, and it has a colorful past.

From Andy Goldsworthy’s blockbuster show at the RSA to the Scottish Colourists at Dovecot, Susan Mansfield and Duncan ...

The biggest moment in Australian women’s sport has been immortalised in a $400,000 video portrait, the largest work ever commissioned by Canberra’s National Portrait Gallery. All 23 players from ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presented the 2025 Portrait of a Nation Awards Saturday, Nov. 15, to four new honorees for their transformative contributions to American history and ...

Artist David Lenz was commissioned by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery to paint a portrait of Dr. Temple Grandin. Grandin, a renowned autism educator and animal science professor, is famous ...

This November, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will celebrate “Portrait of a Nation,” adding four new works to its collection. This year, the honorees are poet Joy Harjo, academic Temple ...

The ‘King of Vogue’ was a desperate social climber and the world on view here seems constricted and parochial. Still, his backdrops are fabulous – usually more interesting than his subjects At the ...

The Trump administration is reviewing eight Smithsonian museums, including the National Portrait Gallery, to remove what it calls woke and divisive material. The White House objected to several past ...

OF SUNDAY’S SEASON OPENER. OFF THE TOP HERE AT SIX, THE HIGH PROFILE HIRE AT THE MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM. KIM SAY IT RECENTLY RESIGNED FROM THE SMITHSONIAN AFTER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP CALLED FOR HER TO ...

Kim Sajet, who stepped down as director of the National Portrait Gallery after President Trump said he was firing her, is becoming director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. By Robin Pogrebin Kim Sajet, ...