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Apr 25, 2010
Sunday What’s in a Name Photo: April 25, 2010
This snap by andertho is indisputably a picture from the National Portrait Gallery. But have you noticed how everyone refers to that building — the Old Patent Office Building and the two museums it contains — as the National Portrait Gallery? Have you ever heard anyone refer to it casually as the Smithsonian American Art Museum? Because half of it is, in fact, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Have you ever heard anyone call…