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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 leaders about the big and small ways that portraits shape our world.

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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 leaders about the big and small ways that portraits shape our world.

Copyright National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
27hr 36min
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Art, biography, history and identity collide in this podcast from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
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"Everybody needs a Paris."
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The presidents and their spouses leave their mark on the walls of the People's House.
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These women took the first hammer swings at a glass ceiling in the shape of an oval.
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The road to the White House before social media.
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The portraits are just the stepping off point.
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What happens if you ask AI to paint a self-portrait?
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Rick Chapman has photographed a lot of Olympians. But for him, it's not about the medals.
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Bidding On History
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Devon Rodriguez has cracked the algorithm and slipped portraiture into your feed.
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Modernism as a garden, and as a minefield.
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A rare portrait of Abraham Lincoln re-emerges, with a story to tell.
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There is an art to fitting masterpieces through poky passages.
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The Changes In Our Change, From Sidedoor
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Portraying Older Women's Bodies
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A journalist draws a portrait of her world-famous ancestor.
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"Everybody needs a Paris."
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The National Mall is a great place to do art, but what should the art say?
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A rare portrait of President Abraham Lincoln re-emerges... with a story to tell.
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Devon Rodriguez has cracked the algorithm and slipped portraiture into your feed.
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The Supreme Court rules on Andy Warhol silk screen, but what about the right to riff?
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From the Smithsonian's Sidedoor podcast, a ledger book stuffed with silhouettes and sprinkled with arsenic.
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We can control the way we are seen, but not the way we are consumed.
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What happens if you ask AI to paint a self-portrait?
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Art fraud is a lot more common than you might think.
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Was he an American patriot, a communist sympathiser, or the destroyer of worlds?
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The frame tells a story that the painting cannot.
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This season we're changing things up..
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Too mad, too manly, too serious, not serious enough..
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The diagnosis is gender bias and historical amnesia.
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If you don't want Ann to draw you, don't be a hypocrite.
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Indra Nooyi is no longer blending in.
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There's more to this story than meets the nose.
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It's possibly the world's largest, and tiniest, portrait collection.
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The award-winning chef José Andrés looks to a Civil War nurse for inspiration.
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A map, a smile, a shadow of controversy.
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Memory does not sit atop a granite foundation, nor does democracy.
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The 'luxury of a likeness' is democratized.
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It's definitely OK to be Takei!
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How do you draw a picture of a world-famous ancestor?
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"When you decide to become a warrior, you can expect a lot of arrows to be slung at you."
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Stories of Resistance and Resilience
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A boozy lunch, a big idea.
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"For me history is not a noun, it's a verb."
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"Pocahontas was a player."
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Science, Sports and The Supremes
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Who do we lionize, and why?
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She literally wrote her way to freedom.
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“Nothing can be so deceiving as a photograph.”
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Two men who had their 'American-ness' challenged.
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"Democracy is never a thing done."
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What does our currency say about us?
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A map, a smile, a shadow of controversy.
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Real people, real stories
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The songs, the portraits, and of course the gowns.
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A million ways that hair is power.
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A dash of cha-cha-cha, a shot of rhythm and blues, shake with ice.
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A family crest with a pair of boxing gloves.
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A portrait so meticulously rendered, "You can see my contact lenses."
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Sojourner Truth's words were not always her own. But her image was.
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In some ways, Elaine de Kooning almost fell in love with her subject. Then he was murdered.
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A reporter becomes the subject of the story.
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What if you could leave behind just one photograph?
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Jumping in right before a knockout
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Good Humor Makes Good Medicine
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Real people, real stories
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"A Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez"
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How did two women buck the Victorian era and become infamous Civil War spies?
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Snapshots from an Interview
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Righting a wrong with a painting.
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The reserved woman who sang her way into civil rights history.
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First Ladies, unelected and not going anywhere.
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Why was this Native American heroine painted in a stiff lace collar?
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When the National Portrait Gallery is your matchmaker..
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"My job is to observe, and my job is to record. But my job is also to be a human."
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Beyond Black And White
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How do you portray someone who never sat for a portrait?

Coming Soon: Portraits

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June 4, 20191min 57sec

Art, biography, history and identity collide in this podcast from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, launching on June 18, 2019. Join Director Kim Sajet as she chats with artists, historians, and thought leaders about the big and small ways that portraits shape our world. Subscribe now!

Find the portraits we discuss at our website: https://npg.si.edu/podcasts

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