Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, announced on Friday (13 June) that she is resigning after 12 years in the role.

President Trump fired the National Portrait Gallery director on Friday for being “highly partisan” and a “supporter” of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

President Donald Trump said he was sacking the longtime director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, on Friday, ending the 12-year tenure of the first woman to serve as ...

Defying Trump, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet is still at work The president said he had fired the museum leader — setting up a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian.

Trump Says He Fired Director of National Portrait Gallery, Citing D.E.I. Kim Sajet, the director of the Smithsonian museum for more than 12 years, has tried to bring in more contemporary artists.

President Donald Trump on Friday posted on social media that he had fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, calling her “a highly partisan person, and a strong ...

Trump Says He Fired National Portrait Gallery Director Over DEI Support Kim Sajet had been in the role since 2013, when she was appointed by President Obama to lead the Smithsonian institution.

National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet (left) and US President Donald Trump (right) Sajet: photo by Wendy Concannon, courtesy Smithsonian Institution. Trump: photo by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr ...

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he fired National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet for being “a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI.” In a Truth Social ...

The National Gallery of Art has agreed to transfer ownership of a small, Blue Period Picasso pastel portrait to the heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a leading German Jewish banker whose ...