Through approximately 70 portraits and compelling authentic documents, this exhibition explores Spain's key role in the Revolutionary War and the founding of the new nation.

On view are approximately 150 color photographs of the religious festivals of 30 Indigenous communities from across Mexico taken by the Mexican-American photographer George O. Jackson de Llano.

This exhibition features works by each of the previous winners of the Lucelia Artist Award.

The exhibition of 30 works is the first retrospective since 1986 on Morris Louis (born 1912 in Baltimore, Maryland) and presents major paintings from the early 1950s until his death in late 1962.

The Black Box Theater showcases rotating exhibitions of contemporary artists who use film or video as their creative medium. Films or videos run continuously.

See works from the 5th year of the VSA arts awards program created by young artists (ages 16-25) with disabilities, illustrating the forces that move them to create.

Follow the development of the community life of neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River, beginning with the original inhabitation by Native Americans up to the present.

This retrospective of Asher B. Durand's work brings together 60 of the most beautiful and famous American landscape paintings of the 19th century.

This retrospective of the celebrated lighting designer Ingo Maurer offers a comprehensive overview of his nearly four decades of work.

This exhibition examines for the first time the complete works of Piranesi (1720-1778) as a designer of architecture, elaborate interiors, and exquisite furnishings and his far-reaching influence on noted architects and designers of yesterday and today.

See more than 400 ceremonial and everyday objects featuring the art and culture of the people of the Northwest Coast.

See more than 56 vintage photographic prints by Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907-1993), widely recognized as Mexico's first woman photographer and a pioneer of modern photography.

Witness the full range of the Mexican presence in the Smithsonian's collections through art and artifacts that span several centuries.

View five cases featuring folk art made by a group of master artisans representing urban, rural, and indigenous communities across Mexico.

Now extinct, the great auk (Pinguinus impennis), a flightless bird, once inhabited the shores of the North Atlantic by the millions.

Japanese ceramics were among the first in Asia to display impressed or incised marks relating to their makers.

To reveal how the museum has augmented and expanded its contemporary holdings during the last century, this exhibition shows the shifts in the museum's collecting across a range of mediums.

See 15 large-scale banners that reveal the little-known but crucial role Native Americans played during World Wars I and II. Native Americans from more than a dozen tribes used their Native languages while in service to the U.S. military.

This retrospective of the work of Earl Cunningham (1893-1977) features 50 of the more than 400 canvases painted during his lifetime.