Moncher Metina outside her house in Limonade, Haiti, on March 17, 2024. Octavio Jones for NPR hide caption toggle caption Octavio Jones for NPR Moncher Metina outside her house in Limonade, Haiti, on March 17, 2024. Octavio Jones for NPR CAP-HAÏTIEN, Haiti — Most of northern Haiti has escaped the
Tag: Portrait
Activists Deface Portrait of Balfour, Who Supported Jewish Homeland
A pro-Palestinian group slashed and spray-painted a century-old portrait of Arthur James Balfour at the University of Cambridge on Friday, defacing a painting of the British official whose pledge of support in 1917 for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” helped pave the way
Marc Pachter, Who Revived National Portrait Gallery, Dies at 80
Marc Pachter, who transformed the National Portrait Gallery in Washington from a collection primarily of solemn paintings of old white men into a more up-to-date museum that now includes illustrations and interviews with diverse living luminaries, died on Feb. 17 in Bangkok. He was 80. The cause was cardiac arrest,
Review: A Musician’s Portrait, as Both Composer and Pianist
At the beginning of “Cineshape 2,” Williams naturally emphasizes differences among the instruments, like the contrast between volatility from the viola and held notes on the cello. But gently melded together by the piano — Williams’s use of that easily dominant instrument tends to be unusually restrained — they blend
‘The Chevalier’ Review: A Music-Theater Portrait of Joseph Boulogne
Now, the composer Joseph Boulogne would be hailed as a Renaissance man: artist, athlete, intellectual, soldier. Born in Guadeloupe in 1745, the son of a white French plantation owner and an enslaved mother of Senegalese origin, Boulogne became a virtuoso violinist, prodigious composer, champion fencer, the general of Europe’s first
Here's the story of the portrait behind Ruth Bader Ginsburg's postage stamp
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s portrait for a new Forever stamp from the U.S. Postal Service is based on a 2017 photograph taken in her office at the Supreme Court. U.S. Postal Service hide caption toggle caption U.S. Postal Service Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s portrait for a new Forever stamp from the U.S.
Exclusive: Rare Portrait of Enslaved Child Arrives at the Met
[CELLO PLAYING] For over 100 years, this family portrait held a secret: a fourth figure that had been painted out. Now, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has just acquired the painting, one of the few 19th-century portraits to realistically portray an enslaved person. Its incredible journey to the Met tells
Review: ‘In the Company of Rose’ Is a Pleasant Portrait
In 2014, the film and theater director James Lapine was invited to a Martha’s Vineyard lunch with the writer Rose Styron, the widow of the novelist William Styron (“The Confessions of Nat Turner,” “Sophie’s Choice”). At the lunch, Lapine proceeded to record an impromptu interview with Rose. Unlike lesser mortals,
'The Talk' is an epic portrait of an artist making his way through hardships
Darrin Bell/Henry Holt & Co. In the prologue to Darrin Bell’s expansive debut graphic memoir, The Talk, he illustrates, in comics, his memory of being six years old and coming face to face with a pack of snarling, snaggle-toothed dogs. The children around him kneel and hold out their hands
Why a portrait artist from Ireland started making comics about U.S. police brutality
Irish artist Pan Cooke combines his love of graphic storytelling with a passion for education and advocacy to create comic strips highlighting prominent cases of police violence. Here, one of his latest strips tells the story of the beating death of Tyre Nichols, who died on Jan. 7 in Memphis,