Recorded Events: Recent Episodes
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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General Colin Powell's portrait, by artist Ronald Sherr, was unveiled and added to the National Portrait Gallery collection on December 2, 2012. Powell was interviewed by NPR's Michele Norris as part of the ceremony.
Ambassador Andrew Young, joined by his longtime friend Jack H. Watson Jr., discusses his role in the American Civil Rights movement.
"Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory" discussion by author Edward G. Lengel
A conversation with David C. Ward, co-curator of "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture"
"Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary" by Steven Weisman, discussion at NPG.
A portrait of Charles Schulz by photographer Yousuf Karsh was presented to the National Portrait Gallery in a ceremony, October 1, 2010.
David Hackett Fischer, cultural historian, spoke on Emmanuel Leutze's iconic painting, "Washington Crossing the Delaware."
Historian James McPherson on Alexander Gardner's photograph "Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road, Antietam"
A discussion with David Childs, architect; Richard Moe, President, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Robert A. Peck, Commissioner, Public Buildings Service; and Ashton Hawkins, Former Executive Vice President and Counsel to the Trustees, Metropolitan Museum of Art
A conversation with New Yorker art critic Calvin Tomkins on Marcel Duchamp. He is interviewed by Anne Goodyear, associate curator of prints and drawings at NPG
The unveiling of Eunice Kennedy Shriver's portrait, featuring remarks from Bobby Shriver and artist David Lenz
Tony Bennett and Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, speak at the dedication of Bennet's portrait of Duke Ellington