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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

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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

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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

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    Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass

    Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.

    December 8, 2023 – August 9, 2026

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    Galleries for Modern and Contemporary Art

    The museum's permanent collection freshly examines the explosion of possibility in American art between the 1940s and today.

    September 22, 2023 – Ongoing

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    Artist to Artist

    Paired artworks, each representing two figures whose trajectories intersected at a creatively crucial moment.

    October 1, 2021 – August 2, 2026

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    Folk and Self-Taught Art

    These galleries serve as a reminder that not all artists are formally trained and that the making of art is as much an act of passion as of intellect.

    October 21, 2016 – Ongoing

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    Experience America

    Through New Deal programs, the federal government paid artists to paint and sculpt and urged them to look to the nation’s land and people for subjects.

    August 14, 2014 – Ongoing

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    Luce Foundation Center for American Art

    The first visible art storage and study center in Washington showcases more than 3,300 artworks from the museum's permanent collection.

    July 1, 2006 – Permanent

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