National Portrait Gallery

Longtime Q St. Resident, Dr. Cynthia Ray Putchat Dies

91st Georgetown House Tour Shows Off Unique Renovations, Designs

Happy Earth Day!

Review: ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Is Swift at Her Most Grown Up, Mature Sound

Georgetown Main Street Lauds Local Businesses

WHAT: In Memoriam: Colin L. Powell WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 20 – Ongoing WHERE: National Portrait Gallery, 8th & G streets NW, Washington, D.C., 20001 The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents […]

Weekend Round Up: September 30-October 3

Kate Oczypok • September 30, 2021

There are lots of events to do this weekend and great weather predicted. Check out the Wharf’s Oktoberfest (and some racing dachshunds!), the Georgetown French Market, an exhibit at the […]

Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

Kate Oczypok • June 24, 2021

Aug. 27, 2021–May 30, 2022 Credit information: “Resident Alien” by Hung Liu, oil on canvas, 1988. Collection of the San Jose Museum of Art; gift of the Lipman Family Foundation. […]

Block by Block: Naming Washington

Kate Oczypok •

Wherever we may be, whenever we provide an address, and find our place on Washington, D.C.’s streets, we spell out and utter street numbers, state names, and in many cases, […]

One Life: Will Rogers

Kate Oczypok •

Credit information: “Will Rogers at the mike of Radio KHJ in Hollywood” by an unidentified photographer, gelatin silver print, c. 1930. Will Rogers Memorial Museum, OHS, Claremore, OK. “One Life: Will […]

“Warranted to Give Satisfaction”: Daguerreotypes by Jeremiah Gurney

Kate Oczypok •

June 25, 2021–February 6, 2022 Credit information: “Two Girls” by Jeremiah Gurney, quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied color, c. 1852. Collection of Wm. B. Becker. In 1840, Jeremiah Gurney (1812–1895) abandoned his […]