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The Gallery has recently released the latest issue of its quarterly publication, Profile, to keep you abreast of museum and renovation news. Profile includes stories on historical events based on portraits, special insights on objects in the collection from the curators, and interviews and columns that share areas of staff expertise and experience. Best of all, the publication is free. If you wish to subscribe to Profile, please use the contact information in the right column.



Winter/Spring 2008
Vol. 8, No. 4;
Vol. 9 No.1

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From the Acting Director
by Carolyn Kinder Carr

Hip Hop Exhibition Energizes the Portrait Gallery
by Frank H. Goodyear II

Historian's Choice: Frank O’Hara
Color lithograph with collage by Larry Rivers (1923–2002), 1967
by David C. Ward

Curator's Choice: Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Self-portrait, platinum print, 1898 National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution
by Frank H. Goodyear III

New Arrivals— Recent Acquisitions on View at NPG

Staff Profile:
Mark Planisek and His Memorial Portraits

by Brandon Brame Fortune

Stephen Colbert Refreshes Visitors at the National Portrait Gallery
by Bethany Morookian Bentley


NPG on TV
by Ellen G. Miles


NPG Exhibitions


Unless otherwise noted, all images are from the National Portrait Gallery collection. ©2008 Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved


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