PORTRAITS
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<p>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.</p>
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Recent Episodes
May 6, 2025
Asteroid Strike
Geologist Walter Alvarez was working away on some limestone samples in Gubbio, Italy, when he became intrigued by an odd layer of rock. He was looking at the K-T boundary. Underneath it, there are dinosaur fossils. Above it, there are none. And Walter was about to stumble on the reason why. In this final episode of our science series, we pair a rock sample from the K-T boundary with a unique portrait by <a href="https://carmenlomasgarza.com/">Carmen Lomas Garza</a> to tell the story of the dinosaur extinction -- how it happened, why it happened, and who figured it out. With <a href="https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/kirk-johnson">Kirk Johnson</a>, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and <a href="https://npg.si.edu/staff/ta%C3%ADna-caragol">Taína Caragol</a>, curator of painting and sculpture and Latino art and history at the National Portrait Gallery. See the portraits we discussed: <a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2019.99?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Dwalter%252Balvarez">Walter Alvarez</a>, by Carmen Lomas Garza <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/39146968">Luis Alvarez</a>, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
April 15, 2025
How Do You Portray A Dinosaur?
We have portraits of people in our galleries. But what if you’re a natural science museum? How do you portray a dinosaur? We talk with <a href="https://www.si.edu/about/bios/kirk-johnson">Kirk Johnson</a>, Sant Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, about the ways our portrayals of dinosaurs have evolved, from sluggish and lizard-like to warm-blooded, colorful and spry. Then <a href="https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/matthew-carrano">Matthew Carrano</a>, curator of dinosauria, explains how the museum put T. rex into a striking new pose. The trick, he says, is to convey how cool dinosaurs were, without making them seem alien. We also tie in a couple portraits from the National Portrait Gallery's collection: an image of the first person to describe an American dinosaur, and a photograph of the first person to give them the Hollywood treatment. See the portraits we discussed: <a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.82.67?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Djoseph%252BLeidy">Joseph Leidy, by Frederick Gutekunst</a> <a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2002.TC5.1?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Dsteven%252Bspielberg">Steven Spielberg, by Gregory Heisler</a> <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2021/09/07/what-weve-discovered-about-tyrant-lizard-king-nations-t-rex-was-unearthed/">The Nation's T. rex</a>, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Also recommended: <a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/02/10/book-review-visions-of-lost-worlds-the-paleoart-of-jay-matternes/">Visions of Lost Worlds: The Paleoart of Jay Matternes</a>, by Matthew T. Carrano and Kirk R. Johnson
April 1, 2025
Blink: A Flower Is Not Just A Flower
This mini 'Blink' episode celebrates the cherry blossoms that are blooming all over Washington D.C. at the moment by taking a closer look at portraits that feature flowers. Kim visits three paintings in the National Portrait Gallery that use specific blooms to convey coded information about the sitter, including the experiences that shaped them and the roles they took on. <a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_S_NPG.2011.147?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Dsarah%252Bweston">Sarah Weston Seaton with her Children,</a> by Charles Bird King <a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2018.16?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Dobama">Barack Obama</a>, by Kehinde Wiley <a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.65.77?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3DGeorge%252BWashington%252BCarver">George Washington Carver</a>, by Betsy Graves Reyneau
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<p>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.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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