#portraitfortoday is of Dr Anna Julia Cooper, who began life enslaved. Her words are in every US passport.
January 30, 2026 at 10:53 PM
#portraitfortoday is of Dr Anna Julia Cooper, who began life enslaved. Her words are in every US passport.
From 21st May, Tate Britain will stage Europe’s largest retrospective of James McNeill Whistler in three decades. The show will bring together drawings, paintings and prints including 'Portrait of the Artist’s Mother.' The exhibition ends 27 September.
January 20, 2026 at 12:14 AM
#portraitfortoday How Elie Wiesel's wife and son gave him a new lease on life
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How Elie Wiesel's wife and son gave him a new lease on life | American Masters | PBS
Before meeting his wife Marion, Elie Wiesel "shunned love" and didn't see himself having children. Marion convinced him, and after their son Elisha was born, Wiesel became more religious.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:55 PM
#portraitfortoday How Elie Wiesel's wife and son gave him a new lease on life
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#portraitfortoday Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin died Tuesday at 86. And 9 mths. before Rosa Parks didn't yield her seat on a Montgomery, AL bus, 15-yr. Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus.
📸: Colvin in 1953 (Wikimedia Commons)
📸: Colvin in 1953 (Wikimedia Commons)
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM
#portraitfortoday Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin died Tuesday at 86. And 9 mths. before Rosa Parks didn't yield her seat on a Montgomery, AL bus, 15-yr. Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus.
📸: Colvin in 1953 (Wikimedia Commons)
📸: Colvin in 1953 (Wikimedia Commons)
#portraitfortoday Katherine Mansfield [1888-1923] painted by American artist, Anne Estelle Rice. 1918. Rice painted Mansfield's portrait in Cornwall, UK when her health was deteriorating due to TB.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
January 11, 2026 at 1:16 AM
#portraitfortoday Katherine Mansfield [1888-1923] painted by American artist, Anne Estelle Rice. 1918. Rice painted Mansfield's portrait in Cornwall, UK when her health was deteriorating due to TB.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
#portraitfortoday Andrew Garfield/Patti Smith/Anderson Cooper www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmEa...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM
#portraitfortoday Andrew Garfield/Patti Smith/Anderson Cooper www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmEa...
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Needing the humanity here .....Join the community to share your story and watch Anderson's weekly streaming show All There Is Live at cnn.com/allthereis
#portraitfortoday is by Robin Damore of Nichelle Nichols [Lt. Uhura], aged 84 today. #PaintingForToday from 2017
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
#portraitfortoday is by Robin Damore of Nichelle Nichols [Lt. Uhura], aged 84 today. #PaintingForToday from 2017
#portraitfortoday is of air traffic controllers youtu.be/jUHRRX6HSHQ?...
Inside look at how air traffic controllers are trained
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November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
#portraitfortoday is of air traffic controllers youtu.be/jUHRRX6HSHQ?...
#portraitfortoday is Gramma Moses www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
A New Exhibition Places Grandma Moses Right Where She Belongs: In the Highest Echelons of American Art
Coming soon to the Smithsonian American Art Museum is a show that highlights the work of the famous late bloomer
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November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#portraitfortoday is Gramma Moses www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
#portraitfortoday Miriam Schapiro, Goncharova, from the portfolio Delaunay, Goncharova, Popova and Me, 1992, screenprint on custom-made paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu/.../goncharo....
November 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#portraitfortoday Miriam Schapiro, Goncharova, from the portfolio Delaunay, Goncharova, Popova and Me, 1992, screenprint on custom-made paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu/.../goncharo....
#portraitfortoday New York City's new mayor www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...
Watch Zohran Mamdani’s full speech after NYC Mayor win | CNN Politics
Democratic State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani delivered a speech to a roarous crowd in NYC after a historic win.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#portraitfortoday New York City's new mayor www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...
#portraitfortoday It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
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‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
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October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
#portraitfortoday It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
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October 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
#portraitfortoday Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
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Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
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Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-win...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
#portraitfortoday Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
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Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
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Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
#portraitfortoday Edward S. Curtis, Coastal Salish Lummi [Type,] 1899
September 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
#portraitfortoday Edward S. Curtis, Coastal Salish Lummi [Type,] 1899
#BookForToday in process #PortraitForToday of Eric Carle and seeing him creating his books, www.misterrogers.org/videos/eric-...
Eric Carle, author and illustrator (1998) - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Freds visits the studio of the children's book author, best known for "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." They read "From Head to Toe."
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June 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
#BookForToday in process #PortraitForToday of Eric Carle and seeing him creating his books, www.misterrogers.org/videos/eric-...