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    Big Things for Big Rooms Added

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    Big Things for Big Rooms

    This presentation of 10 artworks traces the development of immersive, large-scale artworks since the late 1960s.

    December 20, 2025 – July 4, 2027

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees Added

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    Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees

    See the most recent recipients of the Portrait of a Nation Awards, which honors extraordinary individuals who have made transformative contributions to the United States and its people.

    December 12, 2025 – November 15, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Devon Turnbull: HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3 Added

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    Devon Turnbull: HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3

    The listening room installation presents a large scale, handmade, audio system by multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull.

    December 12, 2025 – July 19, 2026

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

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    Made In America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne Added

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    Made In America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne

    See more than 70 large-format photographs that celebrate the combination of human skill and mechanical precision that transform raw materials into objects.

    December 12, 2025 – October 4, 2026

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

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    Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass Added

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    Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass

    Explore glass art as a medium for Indigenous stories, designs, and contemporary issues through 120 artworks by 29 Indigenous artists.

    November 28, 2025 – May 29, 2026

    American Indian Museum New York

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    Water's Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe Added

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    Water's Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe

    Lowe’s elegant sculptures evoke the rivers, streams, and waterfalls of the Wisconsin woodlands where he was raised and the canoes used to traverse them.

    November 25, 2025 – January 1, 2027

    American Indian Museum DC

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    Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work Added

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    Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work

    This exhibition introduces “Grandma” Moses to new generations and examines her legacy in the context of America today.

    November 25, 2025 – July 12, 2026

    American Art Museum

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    Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared Added

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    Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared

    Spanning ancient times to the present, the works featured in this exhibition embody the depth and diversity of Korea’s artistic legacy.

    November 15, 2025 – February 1, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    The Peacock Room in Blue and White Added

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    The Peacock Room in Blue and White

    Immerse yourself in the Peacock Room as it would have looked 150 years ago.

    September 27, 2025 – Ongoing

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Justin Favela: Capilla de Maíz (Maize Chapel) Added

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    Justin Favela: Capilla de Maíz (Maize Chapel)

    A site-specific installation that features shimmering gold-fringed walls and piñata corncobs that highlight the role of maize in North American visual culture.

    August 22, 2025 – TBD

    Renwick Gallery

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    State Fairs: Growing American Craft Added

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    State Fairs: Growing American Craft

    The first exhibition dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs.

    August 22, 2025 – September 7, 2026

    Renwick Gallery

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    Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post Added

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    Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post

    Through precisely inked and animated scenes, this video artwork critically considers the legacy of British colonialism in Asia.

    July 3, 2025 – July 12, 2026

    American Art Museum

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    Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs Added

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    Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs

    Cut + Paste showcases seventeen Japanese artists who pushed the limits of printmaking and photography and whose experimental works blur reality, memory, and even how we perceive space and time.

    June 21, 2025 – February 22, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years Added

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    From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years

    This exhibition traces the evolution of the grand-scale, whole-plate photograph format from the high-end daguerreotype to the more affordable tintype.

    June 20, 2025 – June 14, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints from Mathew Brady’s Portrait Negatives Added

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    Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints from Mathew Brady’s Portrait Negatives

    The exhibition includes nine modern prints from Photographer Mathew Brady's original photographic negatives.

    May 23, 2025 – May 14, 2028

    Portrait Gallery

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    Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped Added

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    Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped

    Reasons to Gather presents eleven historic tea utensils and accessories that demonstrate accrued layers of historical and cultural meaning.

    April 12, 2025 – April 26, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen Added

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    Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen

    Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen is landmark exhibition of new and recent paintings as well as a single-channel video work.

    April 4, 2025 – January 3, 2027

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Making a Statement Added

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    Making a Statement

    Two gowns worn by Oscar-nominated actor Lily Gladstone (Siksikaitsitapi [Blackfeet]/Nimiipuu [Nez Perce]) are on view.

    February 28, 2025 – March 2026

    American Indian Museum DC

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    Tsedaye Makonnen: Sanctuary :: መቅደስ :: Mekdes Added

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    Tsedaye Makonnen: Sanctuary :: መቅደስ :: Mekdes

    Explore sculptures that explore the dehumanization of Black women and themes related to the power of motherhood and sisterly solidarity.

    December 13, 2024 – Ongoing

    African Art Museum

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    Basquiat × Banksy

    Basquiat’s Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump (1982) and Banksy’s response, Banksquiat, are placed in dialogue.

    September 29, 2024 – January 19, 2026

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Glenn Kaino: Bridge Added

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    Glenn Kaino: Bridge

    Glenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. 

    July 26, 2024 – Ongoing

    American Art Museum

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    Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room Added

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    Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room

    Ruffled Feathers offers visitors a chance to explore the Peacock Room’s tangled history and the personal and global forces that shaped it.

    July 13, 2024 – January 31, 2027

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes Added

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    Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes

    This exhibition explores the views of New England portrayed by American painters William Metcalf, Dwight Tryon, Winslow Homer, and Abbott Thayer and how they have evolved and been reshaped over time.

    July 13, 2024 – July 26, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Benin Bronzes

    These artworks were some of the 29 pieces that were legally transferred to their country of origin, Nigeria, in fall 2022.

    June 3, 2024 – December 31, 2026

    African Art Museum

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    Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains Added

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    Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains

    This exhibition celebrates the full expression of narrative art among Native nations of the Great Plains.

    June 1, 2024 – January 20, 2026

    American Indian Museum DC


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