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Art, biography, history and identity collide in this podcast from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Join Director Kim Sajet as she chats with artists, historians, and thought leader...
Geologist Walter Alvarez was working away on some limestone samples in Gubbio, Italy, when he became intrigued by an odd layer of rock. He w...
We have portraits of people in our galleries. But what if you’re a natural science museum? How do you portray a dinosaur? We talk with Kirk...
This mini 'Blink' episode celebrates the cherry blossoms that are blooming all over Washington D.C. at the moment by taking a closer look at...
When William Temple Hornaday's exhibition of stuffed bison went on display at the Smithsonian Institution in 1888, it caused a sensation. Mo...
From the Smithsonian's Sidedoor podcast: sorting fact from fiction to find the real Sojourner Truth. As a prominent woman's rights activist...
We follow a paper trail back in time to learn about the laborers -- some of them enslaved -- who put their backs into the graceful old build...
We remember former President Jimmy Carter through a slightly different lens-- through the eyes of a longtime friend and through the portrait...
In this mini 'Blink' episode, Kim asks political aide Jack Watson for his thoughts on a couple of Time magazine covers featuring his old bos...
Paris in the early 1900s was a magnet for convention-defying American women. It offered a delicious taste of freedom, which they used to exp...
Every time a president leaves office they're asked to do something that might not come naturally-- sit still, be quiet and surrender to some...
In 1872, decades before women were legally allowed to vote, Victoria Woodhull made an audacious run for the White House. The press ridiculed...
With Election Day just around the corner, we go back in time to figure out how early presidential candidates got their message, and their im...
We're back! Season six of PORTRAITS hits your feed Oct. 22 with a new slate of shows that use artwork to decode our world. Kim Sajet , direc...
As AI art gets more and more sophisticated, how do we tell the difference between a portrait that’s created by a human being – with a soul –...
In this mini episode from our 'Blink' series, Rick Chapman shares stories from photographing elite athletes who have competed in the Olympic...
Dolley Madison was eight years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed, and 40 when her husband James became president. In her l...
There are not many portrait artists who get recognized on the street, but it happens to Devon Rodriguez all the time. After quietly honing h...
Next in our 'Blink' summer series, Kim speaks with Robyn Asleson, curator of the 'Brilliant Exiles' exhibition, about a dreamy painting that...
A globe turned to Haiti. A glove on the ground. This life-size portrait of President Abraham Lincoln contains intriguing details that can be...
In our 'Blink' summer series, Kim takes listeners behind the scenes for a quick glimpse at some of the goings-on at the National Portrait Ga...
From the Smithsonian's Sidedoor podcast, we bring you a special episode about the tiny new portraits appearing in our pockets and purses. Th...
Kiki Smith says she didn’t really start making drawings of people until she was 40. Once she had aged a little, she looked in the mirror and...
We didn’t want to let Women’s History Month pass without a tip of the hat to one of the towering figures we’ve featured here on PORTRAITS. D...
Paris in the early 1900s was a magnet for convention-defying American women. It offered a delicious taste of freedom, which they used to exp...
The National Mall is a great canvas, in part because of all the history embedded there. It’s been a place of protest, celebration and mourni...
A globe turned to Haiti. A glove on the ground. A life-size portrait of President Abraham Lincoln contains intriguing details that can be re...
There are not many portrait artists who get recognized on the street, but it happens to Devon Rodriguez all the time. After quietly honing h...
Copyright law is complicated, especially when it comes to visual art. So there was a lot of fanfare around the Supreme Court’s May ruling in...
Silhouettes were a hugely popular and democratic form of portraiture in the 19th century. So an old ledger book full of cut paper profiles a...
Digital artist Amalia Soto, also known by the username Molly Soda , wants to show us how we portray ourselves, or perform ourselves, online....
As AI art gets more and more sophisticated, how do we tell the difference between a portrait that’s created by a human being – with a soul –...
That glass of fine wine you’re enjoying so much.. What if you were told it came from a box? Would it taste different? According to art fraud...
The blockbuster Oppenheimer movie focuses on two portrayals of J. Robert Oppenheimer. One is the famous physicist known as the architect of...
Museum director Kim Sajet takes listeners to stand in front of a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, the revered commander who led the Union Army...
Season five kicks off Oct. 24, as director Kim Sajet takes listeners into the National Portrait Gallery to stand in front of some of her fav...
When Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine, she wanted a cover image that would break completely with the norms of the day. There would be...
Dr. Dorothy Andersen solved a vexing medical mystery by identifying cystic fibrosis. But the mystery of her missing portrait remained unsolv...
Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes says her profession serves as a canary in the coalmine for freedom of expression, a kind of...
Indra Nooyi grew up in a conservative Brahmin household in India, but that didn’t stop her from playing cricket with her brother’s friends,...
From our fellow Smithsonian podcast, Sidedoor , the story of Edmonia Lewis— the first sculptor of African American and Native American (Miss...
Before cable news and email and Twitter, it was the postal service that transmitted ideas and information across land, sea, and political di...
José Andrés is the Michelin-starred chef known for jumping into action to feed people affected by hurricanes, wildfires, and most recently t...
The House committee investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has generated a lot of interest in one of the National Portrait Gall...
Atlantic editor Vann R. Newkirk II talks to Kim about the mutability of memory, as seen through two portraits of the abolitionist John Brown...
Photography and the Civil War crashed into one another, making it affordable for soldiers to have their picture taken before going off to wa...
George Takei went boldly where no man had gone before when he broke racial stereotypes to play Mr. Sulu on Star Trek. But he's also lent his...
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu was a towering figure in science whose parity experiment shattered our understanding of the physical world. She enjoyed...
Grassroots organizer Dolores Huerta talks to Kim about her first encounter with the deep poverty of California farmworkers in the 1950s, and...
Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery, examines the stories of people who say “No” to the status quo. Guests this season incl...
Since it was founded over a long lunch in Boston in 1857, The Atlantic has featured presidents and poets, abolitionists and suffragists— men...