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It offered a delicious taste of freedom, which they used to explode the gender norms of their day, and to explore new kinds of art, literature, dance and design. In the process, they became arbiters of modernism.</p> <p>This episode, we raise the curtain on the National Portrait Gallery’s <a href="https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/brilliant-exiles" target="_blank">“Brilliant Exiles”</a>exhibition with curator Robyn Asleson. It features 60 trailblazing women, including the dancer, singer and spy Josephine Baker, and the bookshop owner Sylvia Beach, who took a chance on James Joyce. Also in the lineup: Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith, whose bustling nightclub became a hub for American jazz musicians, and Romaine Brooks, the painter who reinvented herself, and then reinvented herself again.</p> <p>The exhibition runs from April 26, 2024, to February 23, 2025.</p> <p>See the portraits we discussed:</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panels-flexible-region panels-flexible-region-2_col_with_footer-center panels-flexible-region-last "> <div class="inside panels-flexible-region-inside panels-flexible-region-2_col_with_footer-center-inside panels-flexible-region-inside-last"> <img src="https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/robyn.jpg" width="329" height="400" alt="photo of a young woman with dark hair wearing a colorful scarf" /> <div class="caption"> <p>Robyn Asleson</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panels-flexible-row panels-flexible-row-2_col_with_footer-1 panels-flexible-row-last clearfix Footer Column"> <div class="inside panels-flexible-row-inside panels-flexible-row-2_col_with_footer-1-inside panels-flexible-row-inside-last clearfix"> <div class="panels-flexible-region panels-flexible-region-2_col_with_footer-footer_col panels-flexible-region-first panels-flexible-region-last "> <div class="inside panels-flexible-region-inside panels-flexible-region-2_col_with_footer-footer_col-inside panels-flexible-region-inside-first panels-flexible-region-inside-last">  <div class="masonry-grid masonry-gallery entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-masonry-image-gallery" id="paragraphs-item-13305"> <div class="grid-item"><div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-image-lightbox" id="paragraphs-item-13303"> <a href=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/bricktop.jpg " class="lg-figure" data-sub-html=".caption"><img src=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/bricktop.jpg " alt="photo of a heavyset woman outside a Parisian cafe"> <div class="caption"> <span class="original_text"> <p>Ada “Bricktop” Smith. 1894–1984 / Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) / Gelatin silver print, 1934 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution</p> </span> </div> </a> </div> </div> <div class="grid-item"><div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-image-lightbox" id="paragraphs-item-13304"> <a href=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/baker2_0.jpg " class="lg-figure" data-sub-html=".caption"><img src=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/baker2_0.jpg " alt="photo of a 1020s era dancer on a large stage"> <div class="caption"> <span class="original_text"> <p>Josephine Baker, 1906–1975 / Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg, known as Walery (1863–1929) / Gelatin silver print, 1926 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution</p> </span> </div> </a> </div> </div> <div class="grid-item"><div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-image-lightbox" id="paragraphs-item-13306"> <a href=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/gertrude_0.jpg " class="lg-figure" data-sub-html=".caption"><img src=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/gertrude_0.jpg " alt="painting of an older woman in a dark dress seated in a chair"> <div class="caption"> <span class="original_text"> <p>Gertrude Stein, 1874–1946 / Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) / Oil on canvas, 1905–6 / Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; bequest of Gertrude Stein, 1946</p> </span> </div> </a> </div> </div> <div class="grid-item"><div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-image-lightbox" id="paragraphs-item-13307"> <a href=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/beach.jpg " class="lg-figure" data-sub-html=".caption"><img src=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/beach.jpg " alt="waist length portrait of a woman in a dark suit with a plaid tie"> <div class="caption"> <span class="original_text"> <p>Sylvia Beach, 1887–1962 / Paul-Émile Bécat (1885–1960) / Oil on canvas, 1923 / Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library</p> <p> </p> </span> </div> </a> </div> </div> <div class="grid-item"><div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-image-lightbox" id="paragraphs-item-13308"> <a href=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/brooks_self_portrait_0.jpg " class="lg-figure" data-sub-html=".caption"><img src=" https://npg.si.edu/sites/default/files/brooks_self_portrait_0.jpg " alt="knee length painting of a woman in a black coat wearing a black tophat"> <div class="caption"> <span class="original_text"> <p>Romaine Brooks (1874–1970) / Self-portrait / Oil on canvas, 1923 / Smithsonian American Art Museum; 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