“Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return” Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

Presented by the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, this multisite exhibition is the first major showing of the late Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work in the nation’s capital in 30 years and it explores the artist’s deep engagement with portraiture and how history is told and inherited. While the majority of the artist’s work will be on view inside the National Portrait Gallery and Archives of American Art’s galleries, the artist’s light string work “Untitled” (America) will span three additional locations: the F Street facade of the Portrait Gallery, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library of the District of Columbia Public Library, and along 8th Street between F and E Streets NW, in partnership with the DowntownDC BID.

Walking Tours of “Untitled”

Join exhibition curators for a special walking tour of “Untitled” (America). Participants will discuss the connections between democracy, labor, change, and the site-specific installation of the work. Tour dates and times are:

• Wednesday, October 23 | 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, November 6 | 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, November 20 | 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Sign up for a walking tour via Eventbrite. Tour guests will receive a 20% discount on food and drinks at the bar of Dirty Habit in Hotel Monaco.

Exhibition Details

• Cost: FREE
• Location: National Portrait Gallery
• Nearest Metro Station(s): Gallery Place-Chinatown Station (Red/Green/Yellow lines).

For more information, visit npg.si.edu/exhibition/felix-gonzalez-torres-always-return.