The National Gallery of Art is opening a host of can't-miss exhibitions in the next couple months, and the first one on our calendar is The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years, which just opened yesterday. The exhibition features 153 portraits from 20 artists who spent days, months, and even years creating intimate representations of friends, family members, and themselves.

Then, on October 14, the gallery launches the first major showing of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's work since the artist's death in 1997. More than 100 paintings will be on display, so if you're in the mood for art with a heavy sprinkling of pop culture, you won't want to miss it.

Where: National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW; 202-737-4215.


Photo: Courtesy of National Gallery of Art