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  • 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

  • A Journey of Taste: Freer and Japanese Scroll Mounting 

    Explore the mountings that surround East Asian paintings and their relationship not only to the artworks displayed in this exhibition but also to Chinese and Japanese works throughout the museum. 

    April 15, 2023 – March 3, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Simone Leigh

    The first comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of Simone Leigh, among the most respected artists of her generation.

    November 3, 2023 – March 3, 2024

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Words of Wisdom: Buddhist Calligraphy from Japan

    Japan had not yet developed a written language of its own prior to the year 552, and its introduction by Korean emissaries changed the country’s history forever.

    April 1, 2023 – February 25, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions

    The first exhibition to examine this pivotal period during the Spanish-American-Cuban-Philippine War through the lens of portraiture and visual culture.

    April 28, 2023 – February 25, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Immersion Room

    Cooper Hewitt’s extraordinary collection of wallcoverings are featured in a new high-tech space.

    December 12, 2014 – February 19, 2024

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Rinpa Screens

    Explore a selection of screens painted in the Rinpa style, a movement known for stylized forms in bright colors that spanned the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. 

    February 25, 2023 – February 4, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes

    This exhibition explores the full scope of Dorothy Liebes' contributions as a designer, collaborator, mentor, public figure, and tireless promoter of American modernism.

    July 7, 2023 – February 4, 2024

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection

    Meeting Tessai highlights a transformative gift of early modern and modern Japanese paintings and calligraphy from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection.

    August 13, 2022 – January 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen

    On display for the first time since 1976 after a major conservation project, this Chinese lacquer screen dated to 1672 is a delight, featuring newly revealed intricate details that had been obscured by centuries of wear and use. 

    July 15, 2023 – January 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies

    Musical Thinking: New Video Artists in the Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection explores the powerful resonances between recent video art and popular music.

    June 23, 2023 – January 28, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea

    The exhibition examines the perspectives of 48 modern and contemporary artists who offer a broader and more inclusive view of this region, which too often has been dominated by romanticized myths and Euro-American historical accounts.

    July 28, 2023 – January 15, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China

    A Window Suddenly Opens is the Hirshhorn’s first survey of photography by leading multigenerational Chinese artists made between the 1990s and 2000s.

    November 4, 2022 – January 7, 2024

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Kinship

    Kinship presents more than forty artworks by eight contemporary artists whose work explores the notion of “kinship” and the closeness that bonds us.

    October 28, 2022 – January 7, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.

    Explore how women of color draw on a long history of activism and advance environmental justice efforts.

    May 19, 2023 – January 7, 2024

    Anacostia Community Museum

  • John Akomfrah: Purple

    An enveloping, hour-long symphony of image and sound, Purple (2017) weaves together original film with archival footage against a hypnotic score to address themes related to climate change

    November 23, 2022 – January 7, 2024

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • In Memoriam: Rosalynn Carter, 1927–2023

    Rosalynn Carter was the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

    November 21, 2023 – January 3, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch

    Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch celebrates more than a half century of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films.

    May 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024

    American Indian Museum New York

  • Highlights of the NMAAHC Library Collection

    Eleven objects are featured in this exhibition of highlights from the National Museum of African American History and Culture Library.

    September 12, 2022 – December 31, 2023

    African American History and Culture Museum

  • Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

    Why We Serve honors the generations of Native Americans who have served in the armed forces of the United States—often in extraordinary numbers—since the American Revolution.

    November 11, 2020 – November 30, 2023

    American Indian Museum New York

  • Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

    Why We Serve honors the generations of Native Americans who have served in the armed forces of the United States since the American Revolution.

    November 10, 2021 – November 30, 2023

    American Indian Museum DC

  • Portrait of a Nation: 2022 Honorees

    This intimate exhibition features the portraits of the seven individuals who have been selected to receive one of the museum’s 2022 Portrait of a Nation Awards.

    November 10, 2022 – October 22, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Block by Block: Naming Washington

    Explore the namesakes of Washington, D.C.’s streets, avenues, neighborhoods, and other public spaces.

    July 30, 2021 – October 22, 2023

    Portrait Gallery


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