New faces of 2006: artists, emerging and renowned alike, will vie to display their works in the National Portrait Gallery when it reopens next July.(From the SECRETARY)

Publication: Smithsonian

Publication Date: 01-SEP-05

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Portraits can reveal to us what is most singular and significant about a person merely by inviting us to look closely at the individual's unique face, form and body. These details, and the settings and the clothes worn by the subjects, can offer wonderfully engaging biographies--the stories of lives, set down not in words and paragraphs but with paint, pencil, stone or bronze. The stories change, of course, as people and the times change, which is why the curators and other staff at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG)...

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