The Style Blog: National Portrait Gallery


Posted at 03:00 PM ET, 05/07/2012

Martin Sullivan steps down as Portrait Gallery director
By Jacqueline Trescott
Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery since 2008, announced Monday that he is stepping down at the end of the month. He will become a senior scholar at the Smithsonian.

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Tags:  Martin E. Sullivan, National Portrait Gallery, resignation of Portrait Gallery director

Posted at 04:00 PM ET, 03/20/2012

Amelia Earhart will be focus of year-long exhibition at Portrait Gallery
By Jacqueline Trescott
“One Life: Amelia Earhart,” a recognition of the life and career of the famed aviation pioneer, will open at the National Portrait Gallery on June 29, the museum announced today.

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Tags:  Amelia Earhart, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Martin Sullivan

Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 01/18/2011

Clough pledges to continue "Hide/Seek" conversation
By Jacqueline Trescott
The issues raised by his decision to remove a controversial video from the "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" exhibit will be fully explored in a public forum in April, Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough said Monday. "I know...

By Jacqueline Trescott  |  12:00 PM ET, 01/18/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  Smithsonian, Smithsonian, Smithsonian | Tags:  A Fire in My Belly, Smithsonian Institution, Wayne Clough, national portrait gallery

Posted at 01:30 PM ET, 01/12/2011

PEN requests Smithsonian to consider broader implications of video removal
By Jacqueline Trescott
The board of the PEN American Center, the human rights and literary organization, has asked the Smithsonian Board of Regents to consider some of the broader issues of censorship surrounding the controversy over a video the Smithsonian removed from a...

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Posted at 07:30 PM ET, 01/05/2011

Protesters Plan to Stage "Museum of Censored Art"
By Jacqueline Trescott
Michael Blasenstein, along with Michael Iacovone, the two protesters who were stopped last month from showing inside the museum a controversial video that was removed from the National Portrait Gallery, are planning to bring the art work to the curb...

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Posted at 08:04 AM ET, 12/10/2010

Colbert donates his rally suit, and some opinions to the Smithsonian
By Jacqueline Trescott
Tip/Wag - Art Edition - Brent Glasswww.colbertnation.com When your controversy reaches the hot lights of the late night comedians, you know everyone is talking. And when Stephen Colbert is devoting an entire show to art, its creation and process, and...

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Posted at 05:30 PM ET, 12/03/2010

AAMD Criticizes Portrait Gallery's Action
By Jacqueline Trescott
The Association of Art Museum Directors, which oversees practices in North American museums and develops guidelines for art museums, issued a response Friday to the controversy at the National Portrait Gallery. The Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, removed a...

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Posted at 10:00 AM ET, 11/16/2010

Portrait Gallery To Read and Read and Read "Leaves of Grass"
By Jacqueline Trescott
In "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman wrote some mighty tongue twisters. "I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond...

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Categories:  Jacqueline Trescott, Jacqueline Trescott | Tags:  leaves of grass, national portrait gallery, poetry marathon, walt whitman