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Gold Portrait of a Nation award trophies shaped as a face in profile

National Portrait Gallery · Penn Quarter / Chinatown

Ritratto di una nazione: gli insigniti del 2025 (Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees)

Now showing12 December 2025 – 17 October 2027·Free

Nuovi ritratti dei vincitori del premio 2025 — Jamie Dimon, Temple Grandin, Joy Harjo e Steven Spielberg — tra cui opere commissionate a David Lenz e Kate Capshaw.

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Still from Shahzia Sikander's digital animation The Last Post (2010)

Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Installation view of Nick Cave: Mammoth at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Nick Cave: Mammoth (Nick Cave: Mammoth)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

US Coast Guard photograph of a worker at Ground Zero following the September 11, 2001 attacks

Ricordando l'11 settembre (Remembering 9/11)

National Archives Museum

All exhibitions in Washington, DC this month Coming up in October

Nearby

Smithsonian American Art Museum

ArtFree1 min walk

National Building Museum

Architecture5 min walk

National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree7 min walk

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Design7 min walk

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Courtesy of the museum)