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  • An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama

    An Epic of Kings offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see twenty-five folios from the now dismantled manuscript—the Great Mongol Shahnama.

    September 21, 2024 – January 12, 2025

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson

    Jackson creates a series of haunting, yet profoundly beautiful and empowering encounters that draw upon African water spirits from Senegal to South Africa.

    April 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025

    African Art Museum

  • Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life

    Wheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks.

    July 14, 2023 – January 5, 2025

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women

    Learn how the featured artists mastered and subverted the everyday materials of cotton, felt, and wool to create deeply personal artworks.

    May 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025

    Renwick Gallery

  • Commissioned Portrait of Oprah Winfrey

    Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren painted Winfrey in a purple taffeta dress amidst a lush garden at her California home.

    December 13, 2023 – December 15, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Park Chan-kyong: Gathering

    The exhibition features a range of works that highlight Park’s masterful use of the photographic medium to explore the enduring traces of tradition, history, and disaster in contemporary society. 

    October 7, 2023 – October 14, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints

    Staging the Supernatural brings together a collection of vibrant, colorful woodblock prints and illustrated books depicting the porous boundary between the real world and the world of supernatural beings in Japanese cultural history.

    March 23, 2024 – October 6, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980

    The paintings and calligraphy in this exhibition fuse reality with imagination and remain important to understanding the continuing, complex engagement of Japanese artists with China.

    March 16, 2024 – September 15, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice

    William H. Johnson's Fighters for Freedom series is a tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers, and performers as well as international heads of state working to bring peace to the world.

    March 8, 2024 – September 10, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism

    View some of the key people whose work has influenced attitudes toward the environment in the United States from the late 19th century until today.

    October 20, 2023 – September 2, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Staff Picks: Our Favorite Things from the Collection

    This exhibition introduces staff members from the Archives of American Art and items they find special, sometimes for very personal reasons.

    June 1, 2023 – September 1, 2024

    Archives of American Art

  • Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women

    Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.

    March 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection

    Learn how Cooper Hewitt acquires new work to shape the collection to better reflect current issues and design’s evolving role in daily interactions.

    March 16, 2024 – August 25, 2024

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • An Atlas of Es Devlin

    An Atlas of Es Devlin features over 300 sketches, paintings, illuminated paper cuts, and projection-mapped rotating miniature sculptures that form the seeds of some of the most iconic, cultural congregations of music, poetry, art, and activism in recent times.

    November 18, 2023 – August 11, 2024

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas

    This exhibition provides an intimate view of Thomas’ evolving artistic practices during her most prolific period from 1959 to her death in 1978.

    September 15, 2023 – August 4, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back

    This focused exhibition pairs two projects by Carrie Mae Weems that explore the relationship of memory to history and of memory.

    September 22, 2023 – July 7, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful

    Red Is Beautiful, the first major retrospective of his work, celebrates more than fifty years of this singular artist’s remarkable career.

    May 25, 2023 – June 2, 2024

    American Indian Museum DC

  • Duty, Honor, Country: Antebellum Portraits of West Pointers

    This exhibition features early camera portraits of individuals drawn exclusively from the Portrait Gallery’s collection of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes.

    June 23, 2023 – May 19, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change

    Experience works by American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) in a groundbreaking exhibition that explores European cities in an era of rapid change. 

    November 18, 2023 – May 4, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings

    Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings features over two hundred remarkable artifacts from the museum’s permanent collection. 

    February 25, 2023 – April 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • The Future of Orchids: Conservation and Collaboration

    The 28th annual orchid exhibition fills the entire Kogod Courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.

    January 27, 2024 – April 28, 2024

    Smithsonian Gardens

  • One Life: Frederick Douglass

    This exhibition illuminates the legacy of Frederick Douglass through prints, photographs, and ephemera.

    June 16, 2023 – April 21, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Journey of Color

    Take a Journey of Color as we highlight thirty-four objects that reveal how different cultures obtained, produced, and used color to individualize their creations and tell layered, universal stories.

    May 4, 2023 – April 4, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America

    Adéagbo invites each of us to consider our individual reflections of Abraham Lincoln and the unfinished journey toward emancipation for all.

    November 18, 2023 – April 1, 2024

    African Art Museum

  • Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023

    Sharing Honors and Burdens focuses on fresh and nuanced visions by six Native American or Alaska Native artists.

    May 26, 2023 – March 31, 2024

    Renwick Gallery


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