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  • 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

  • Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

    This exhibition explores and reveals Afrofuturism’s historic and poignant engagement with African American history and popular culture.

    March 24, 2023 – August 18, 2024

    African American History and Culture Museum

  • Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols

    Give Me a Sign examines the fascinating histories behind many of the symbols that instruct, protect, entertain, empower, and connect people.

    May 13, 2023 – August 11, 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

  • 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


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