National Portrait Gallery's 'On Stage' Opens November 6: More Than 20 Portraits Celebrate the Performing Arts
The National Portrait Gallery will open 'On Stage: Portraying the Performing Arts' on November 6 in its second-floor north galleries. The exhibition runs through July 18, 2027, and admission is free.
The show brings together more than 20 paintings and sculptures from the collection depicting figures from opera, jazz, theater and popular music, including portraits of Paul Robeson, Ginger Rogers, Dizzy Gillespie, LL Cool J, Maria Callas and Lena Horne.
Highlights include a portrait of Katharine Hepburn displayed alongside her four Academy Awards, and Boris Chaliapin's 1964 oil portrait of jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.
The National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, is located at Eighth and G Streets NW in Washington, D.C.
(Source: Smithsonian Institution)
Source: Smithsonian Institution
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Photo: 凯瑟琳·赫本的经典宣传照，本次展览将展出她的肖像与四座奥斯卡奖杯。Katharine Hepburn in a classic publicity photograph; her portrait and four Academy Awards feature in the exhibition. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, restored by Adam Cuerden / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
