As I entered the Masonic Temple in Center City and walked between two sphinx statues guarding the entryway staircase, and ...

Catriona Kendall, Editor The National Portrait Gallery most notably houses images of every previous president, allowing visitors to reminisce about each political figure as they progress through ...

Last fall, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled a special wall in our galleries, called “Recognize,” as a place to highlight one important person in our collection as chosen by the Portrait ...

Remember the character in George Eliot's Middlemarch ... And there is a lot. In 1996 the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) bought Washington's daguerreotype of John Brown, the earliest known ...

Rendered in a modern style, the portrait shows Donald Trump with blood streaming down his face, his fist raised in defiance, shouting to his stunned supporters, "Fight! Fight! Fight!" ...

The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937 ...

The National Gallery of Art has already shuttered its diversity offices in compliance with the president’s executive order ...

Below you'll find a few of our favourite things you can buy right now in the National Portrait Gallery Shop. But it's well worth going there yourself and having a rummage (though if that's tricky ...

George Washington Birthplace National Monument, likewise, is doing events to tie into the holiday, including a hike on Saturday afternoon and giving attendees a map to find the first president’s ...

Although Wilmington has been visited by more than a dozen Commander in Chief’s since, having once been a stop for George Washington stands out in history. Washington visited the Port City in ...

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the ...