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Portrait Gallery director James Holloway to retire

BBC News - Jan 20, 2012
The director of the newly-restored Scottish National Portrait Gallery is to retire from the role at the end of the month. James Holloway oversaw the two-year project to refurbish and revitalise the building on Edinburgh's Queen Street. ...

York Residents' Festival

BBC News - Jan 22, 2012
These change every few months and can be anything from a touring exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery to a celebration of our own ceramics collection. Another new area is The Studio, close to the main entrance, which is used for family ...

Kate Middleton To Be Patron Of National Portrait Gallery

ArtLyst - Jan 5, 2012
The National Portrait gallery and as reported on ArtLyst, in November and December, The Art Room, a small charity based in Oxford and London, which uses art to provide therapy for children and young people with challenges. The Founder Director of The ...

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Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

by: Jonathan D. Katz, David C. Ward

An entirely new interpretation of modern American portraiture based on the history of sexual difference.

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to the present, .
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National Portrait Gallery - Student Orientation Video

Welcome to the Smithsonian. This orientation video outlines some of the most exciting exhibits in this Smithsonian museum. Created for students, the video also illustrates a few museum dos and don'ts. Learn More: www.npg.si.edu

 

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Artist Rose Frantzen at National Portrait Gallery

Rose Frantzen was born and raised in the community of Maquoketa (mah CO ket ah), a city of about 6000 people in east-central Iowa. Ms. Frantzen trained at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. She also studied at Chicagos Palette & Chisel Academy and at the Lyme Academy of Arts in Connecticut. She has worked under the mentorship of Richard Schmid, and made painting tours of Australia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Russia. In this Gallery360 presentation, Rose Frantzen discusses the journey that led her to create Portrait of Maquoketa, a series of 180 12x12 paintings of the people in her community. Portraiture Now: Communities features paintings by Rose Frantzen, Jim Torok, and Rebecca Westcott. The exhibition is on view through July 5, 2010 http//:npg.si.edu/exhibit/communities

 

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National Portrait Gallery - Teacher Orientation Video

Welcome to the Smithsonian. This orientation video outlines some of the most exciting exhibits in this Smithsonian museum. Created for teachers, the video also illustrates a few museum dos and don'ts for school groups. Learn more: www.npg.si.edu

 

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Hope: Shepard Fairey and Barack Obama

The Barack Obama "Hope" poster created by LA artist Shepard Fairey, will hang in the US National Portrait Gallery on January 20, 2009.

 

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Greenwash spill at the BP-sponsored National Portrait Gallery

Last night at 6.07 PM the London brigade of the Greenwash Guerrillas got a call from a panicked pedestrian outside the National Portrait Gallery. It seemed that the prizegiving ceremony for BP Portrait Award was about to start, and toxic greenwash had begun to gush uncontrollably from the gallery's front doors. Arriving on the scene, armed with the latest in greenwash detecting equipment and wearing protective biohazard suits, the Guerrillas immediately identified several sources of the leak. Greenwash levels appeared to be the strongest anywhere a bright green BP logo was to be found: from the massive banners fronting either side of the grand entrance, to the microscopic embroidery on a security guard's lapel. The Guerrillas were given the run-around by gallery security and the Metropolitan police, who escorted Britain's cultural establishment into the awards ceremony first at the front, then around the side, then back at the front entrance again. By 7 PM, everyone had convened at the front entrance, and the Guerrillas set to work to contain the leak, quarantine the area, and warn attendees against entering the building. Many clean-up efforts were tried, from throwing golf balls and old tires at the leak to trying to plug it with mud, but for some reason the spill just kept gushing. Meanwhile, some Guerrillas attempted to arm the attendees -- most of whom, inexplicably, were determined to enter the contaminated building -- with information about BP, oil industry ...