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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Perfect Harmony: American Art

    Juxtaposing American and Asian art is a legacy of the founder of our museum, Detroit industrialist Charles Lang Freer. He believed in a universal language of beauty that resonated across time, space, and cultural diversity.

    November 27, 2019 – October 8, 2023

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • A More Perfect Union: American Artists and the Currents of Our Time

    In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Art in Embassies’ traveling exhibition, A More Perfect Union: American Artists and the Currents of Our Time, will be on view at the National Museum of American History September 19–October 1, 2023.

    September 19, 2023 – October 1, 2023

    American History Museum

  • Ay-Ō's Happy Rainbow Hell

    Immerse yourself in Ay-Ō’s world of sensory experience, exploration, and fun. This exhibition contains material not appropriate for all audiences. Parental discretion is advised.

    March 25, 2023 – September 10, 2023

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection

    Put It This Way is devoted to the work of nearly 50 women and nonbinary artists in the Hirshhorn’s collection.

    August 2, 2022 – September 4, 2023

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Designing Peace

    Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace. 

    June 10, 2022 – August 6, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Places of Invention

    Discover what can happen when the right mix of inventive people, ready resources, and inspiring surroundings come together.

    July 1, 2015 – July 30, 2023

    American History Museum

  • Inventive Minds

    Inventive Minds, a gallery within the Lemelson Hall of Invention and Innovation, will introduce visitors to the mission and work of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, particularly its efforts to document invention.

    July 1, 2015 – July 30, 2023

    American History Museum

  • Reconstructing ‘Weatherbreak’ in an Age of Extreme Weather

    This month-long exhibitions will display the reconstruction of Weatherbreak—the first large-span geodesic dome to be erected in North America.

    July 5, 2023 – July 27, 2023

    American History Museum

  • One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection

    Building on the Hirshhorn’s blockbuster 2017 exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, this new exhibition affirms Kusama’s legacy within the Museum’s collection and art history with new acquisitions.

    April 1, 2022 – July 16, 2023

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Baseera Khan: The Liberator

    Baseera Khan’s sculpture The Liberator (2022) points to ongoing and global struggles for justice, as well as the complicated relationships between Western museums, capital, and cultural identity.

    May 4, 2023 – July 16, 2023

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India

    Through still and moving image, seriality, and portraiture, five leading contemporary artists explore rapidly changing natural and built environments in India, from riverbanks, ancient forests, and city streets to surreal symbolic settings.

    December 10, 2022 – June 11, 2023

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • Outbreak DIY: Epidemics in a Connected World

    Join epidemiologists, veterinarians, public health workers, and citizens as they rush to identify and respond to infectious diseases.

    November 3, 2022 – June 4, 2023

    Natural History Museum

  • Nature by Design: Botanical Lessons

    Botanical Lessons explores nature in the Smithsonian collections through thirteen botanical models on loan from the National Museum of American History, and a selection of illustrated books and periodicals from Smithsonian Libraries.

    June 8, 2019 – May 29, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits

    Multimedia artist Iké Udé celebrates the luminescent beauty and mystique of African visionaries.

    February 5, 2022 – May 29, 2023

    African Art Museum

  • Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World's Fair

    Decorative arts from Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection in dialogue with 20 innovative data visualizations created for the 1900 Paris World’s Fair by W. E. B. Du Bois to explore how design can both reveal and mask dynamics of power and equity.

    December 9, 2022 – May 29, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves

    This exhibition invites a new understanding of France’s most famous art nouveau architect, Hector Guimard (1867–1942).

    November 18, 2022 – May 21, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum


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