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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the stories of America through the individuals who have shaped U.S. culture. Through the visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists who speak American history.
Location:
The museum is conveniently located at Eighth and F Streets, NW, D.C., 20001
Museum Hours:
11:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. daily
Closed December 25
Admission:
FREE
General Information Number
(202) 633-8300
NPG Information Email Address:
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“RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture”
February 8 through October 26, 2008
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Since its inception in the 1970s, hip hop has been arguably the most influential and popular musical form in America. Its popularity extends beyond the urban centers of its inception and pervades youth culture throughout the world. Images of hip hop stars are as pervasive as the music itself, and the National Portrait Gallery is featuring the work of artists who have explored this phenomenon.
Stephen Colbert: The Portrait
January 17 through March 2, 2008
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  Stephen Colbert, the mock pundit for the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report recently contacted the National Portrait Gallery hoping to donate a portrait of himself from his show. NPG agreed to go along with the joke and hang the portrait, for a limited time, on the Gallery's second floor. So refresh yourself at the drinking fountain while contemplating this fine work of art--while you can.
“One Life: KATE, A Centennial Celebration”
November 2, 2007 through September 28, 2008
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 The National Portrait Gallery’s One Life gallery will be dedicated to Katharine Hepburn. Born May
12, 1907, Hepburn was a 20th-century icon who carefully constructed and maintained her own myth
from her earliest days in the studio system through more than 50 years on stage, screen and television.
The exhibition includes her four Oscar statues—the most won by anyone for best actress; images from
her life and career; a video kiosk that will play clips from a selection of her films, interviews and
television.
New Arrivals
Open through March 16, 2008
“New Arrivals” displays newly acquired paintings, drawings, sculptures, posters, prints and
photographs in the National Portrait Gallery collection, featuring subjects including Louis Armstrong,
Jefferson Airplane, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, James Brown, Susan Sontag and Lenny Bruce. The
presented works offer an opportunity to explore some of the most recent additions to the National
Portrait Gallery’s ever-growing collection.
“Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits”
October 19, 2007 through March 2, 2008
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 This exhibition of photographic portraits of African Americans draws its name from the words of
abolitionist and clergyman Henry Highland Garnet, who advocated action when speaking to a
gathering of free blacks in 1843: “Strike for your lives and liberties. …Let your motto be Resistance!
Resistance! RESISTANCE!...”
“The Presidency and the Cold War”
July 1, 2006–February 24, 2008
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 The gallery adjacent to “America’s Presidents” is devoted to exhibitions on presidential
themes. The first is “The Presidency and the Cold War.” During the second half of the 20th
century, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a global struggle. Beginning with FDR,
Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at Yalta and ending with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, this
exhibition explores how U.S. presidents shaped or reacted to the events of the age.
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