The featured artists draw upon this rich subject in multifaceted ways, using both the material and concept of skin as a metaphor for widespread issues.

The exhibit features more than 120 arts-and-crafts objects made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II, along with photographs illustrating life in the camps.

Experience the sights, scenes, and beautiful buildings that make up the ever-changing Penn Quarter neighborhood in downtown Washington, D.C.

Learn about the invention of early lasers and how they were put to practical use in this case.

On view is the letter George Washington wrote on November 30, 1785, to David Stuart, a trusted associate and stepfather to Washington's grandchildren.

This exhibition retraces a team of scientists' journey into this relatively undiscovered world using art, images, models, and multimedia.

 A bright, sunshine yellow Nano is on display, along with diagrams and a short film describing its concept, development and production.

This exhibition presents more than 60 of Albers' works from the museum's collection, along with key objects on loan from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation on view for the first time.

The show includes approximately 30 works of presidential cover art, representing a variety of mediums, from traditional oil paintings to a pop-art sculpture bust of Richard Nixon made from strips of newspaper headlines.

Rodarte, founded in 2005 by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, is widely acclaimed for its daring and conceptural fashion collections.

An extraordinary selection of silver-gilt ceremonial vessels, created in Iran during the Sasanian Empire (ca. 224-651), are on view.

The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is displayed together with the Hope Diamond for the first time.

On view are watercolors, pastels, and drawings from the 1960s to the 1990s that illustrate the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of works on paper by American artists.

See rare artifacts and photographs from more than 400 communities that explore the role of Catholic sisters in American life.

This exhibition features Elvis Presley and celebrates the 75th anniversary of his birth.

This exhibition illuminates the engaging variety of local styles of glazing and decoration invented by Kyushu potters over three centuries.

This exhibition features rare and archival photographs and film of Native skaters, as well as skatedecks from Native companies and contemporary artists, to celebrate the vibrancy, creativity, and controversy of American Indian and Native Hawaiian skate culture.

On view are photographs, product literature, advertisements, and other documents related to the Bobcat Co.

Curator and arts advocate Phoebe Greenberg worked with Caroline Binet, Denis Villeneuve, Jacques Davidts, and a feature film-style team to bring this part dream, part morality tale scenario to life.