The Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are both open from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and admission to both is always free.

King painted from life Indian leaders of at least twenty tribes. These portraits were later handsomely reproduced as hand colored lithographs in Thomas McKenney and James Hall’s three-volume classic, ...

How did 1920s fashion help to make the Roaring Twenties roar? Bernice had bobbed her hair; French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen was fuelling the sportif craze; the taste for all things art deco carried ...

The picture of Trump is reminiscent of portraits of leaders hanging from public buildings, often seen in dictatorships, monarchies, and in descriptions in George Orwell’s 1984 of “Big Brother.” ...

Returning for a third season, the New York-set drama The Gilded Age is fizzing with gossip, intrigue and some gasp-inducing ...