PORTRAITS

National Portrait Gallery

Art, biography, history and identity collide in this podcast from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Join Director Kim Sajet as she chats with artists, historians, and thought leaders about the big and small ways that portraits shape our world.

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PORTRAITS

Episodes (85)

May 6, 2025 Asteroid Strike
Apr 15, 2025 How Do You Portray A Dinosaur?
Apr 1, 2025 Blink: A Flower Is Not Just A Flower

PORTRAITS

May 6, 2025
26¼ minutes
60 MB

Geologist Walter Alvarez was working away on some limestone samples in Gubbio, Italy, when he became intrigued by an odd layer of rock. He was looking at the K-T boundary. Underneath it, there are dinosaur fossils. Above it, there are none. And Walter was about to stumble on the reason why. In this final episode of our science series, we pair a rock sample from the K-T boundary with a unique portrait by Carmen Lomas Garza to tell the story of the dinosaur extinction -- how it happened, why it happened, and who figured it out. <...

PORTRAITS

Asteroid Strike

National Portrait Gallery

00:00 -26:14