The president said he had fired the museum leader — setting up a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian.

Trump’s effort to oust the director of the National Portrait Gallery could give him absolute control over Smithsonian content ...

Four days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to ...

Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., was still coming to work earlier this week-even ...

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to assert control over an elite American cultural institution has turned into a ...

Kim Sajet, the director of the Smithsonian museum for more than 12 years, has tried to bring in more contemporary artists.

The White House's budget would pull all government funding from the Anacostia Community Museum and the planned National ...

The president, who has been hellbent on gutting the Smithsonian, accused Kim Sajet of being “a highly partisan person" ...

President Donald Trump announced on May 30 that he fired Kim Sajet from her role as director of Smithsonian’s National ...

After weeks of threatening to crack down on the Smithsonian for “divisive narratives,” Trump on Friday fired National ...

The National Portrait Gallery, established in 1962 by an ... Its collection includes more than 26,000 works. An independent institution, the Smithsonian has operated as a public-private ...

It is not clear the president has the authority to make staffing decisions for the gallery, which is part of the Smithsonian ...