National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery presents a second installation of Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell, with a new selection of 20 vintage photographs that explore timeless images of film royalty from the 1930s .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Materials, Methods, and Meanings: Craft in the Archives of American Art explores how artists working across craft disciplines have redefined their fields through inventive uses of materials, experimental techniques, and radical forms that carry.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Timed with the U.S. semiquincentennial, the National Portrait Gallery commemorates the founding of its historic home with The Spirit of Invention: Patent Office and Patentees. This exhibition sketches the early history of the Patent Office—the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, the National Portrait Gallery will present the 2026 Edgar P. Richardson Symposium, titled “Revolutionary Rivals: Portraits from the Global Theater of War.”