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Newborn Ancestors: The Art and Articles of Plains Indian Children
March 4, 2001 - May 27, 2001

See cradleboards, clothing, and games offer insights into traditions that nurture the lives of Native children from the Great Plains.

American Indian Museum Heye Center
Real and Imagined Places in Japanese Art
March 4, 2001 - October 21, 2001

The 29 Japanese paintings, ceramics, and lacquer works in this exhibition present various views of real and imagined places.

Freer Gallery
Dinner for Five: Japanese Serving Dishes for Elegant Meals
March 4, 2001 - October 21, 2001

This small exhibition presents ceramic dishes used for "kaiseki," a light meal that originated in the Japanese tea ceremony but later also flourished in the context of stylish restaurants. 

Freer Gallery
William Kentridge
February 28, 2001 - May 13, 2001

This exhibition features 13 animated short films and some 60 related figure drawings created since the late 1980s by South African artist William Kentridge.

Hirshhorn Museum
Contemporary Art from India
February 14, 2001 - October 24, 2001

Sackler Gallery
Manifestations of the Spirit: Photographs of Afro-Brazilian Religion by Phyllis Galembo
February 2, 2001 - January 1, 2002

These 16 photographs show the immediacy and vitality of practitioners of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble, as well as the visual continuity of practices, symbols, and ideas between Africa and Brazil.

Natural History Museum
Indian Peace Medals from the Schermer Collection, National Portrait Gallery
January 26, 2001 - June 4, 2001

View 19 peace medals presented by the U.S. government to Indian tribal leaders between 1793 and 1881 to secure treaties and cement political loyalties.  Also see  a complete 3-volume set of The History of Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, one of the 19th century's most important works on the American Indian.

Smithsonian Castle
Chinese Arts of the Brush, 17th-18th Century
January 21, 2001 - July 22, 2001

Sixteen Chinese landscape paintings from the mid-17th to mid-18th century reflect the century long development in four major art centers after the Manchus took over China in 1644.

Freer Gallery
Presidential Mail: On Official Business
January 19, 2001 - March 26, 2001

"Franked" envelopes carry signatures of presidents from Jefferson to Carter. 

Postal Museum
Madam on the Mall Madam on the Mall
mid-January 2001 - May 28, 2001

This case discusses the archaeological findings on the site of the American Indian Museum.

A&I
The Smithsonian at the Turn of the (20th) Century
January 11, 2001 - April 18, 2001

A&I
Encounters with the Contemporary Encounters with the Contemporary
January 7, 2001 - January 6, 2002

African Art Museum
Explore the Universe Preview
December 22, 2000 - April 1, 2001

Air and Space Museum
Changing Taste: Indian Paintings of the 18th to the 20th Century
December 17, 2000 - July 15, 2001

Sackler Gallery
Whistler and the Thames
December 17, 2000 - June 17, 2001

This exhibition presents a collection of etchings, lithographs, and litho tints, as well as an oil painting and one pastel drawing of London's Thames River by American artist James McNeill Whistler.

Freer Gallery
When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance in History and Art
December 14, 2000 - June 1, 2001

A&I
Beauty, Honor, and Tradition: The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts
December 10, 2000 - October 1, 2001

View 50 mid-19th- to early 20th-century beaded, quilled, and painted shirts, which tell the stories of the artistic nature, philosophy, and values of the Plains Indians.

American Indian Museum Heye Center
Simmons Mattress Company
December 7, 2000 - March 28, 2001

Papers and objects related to the Simmons Mattress Company are on view.

American History Museum
Persepolis: Documenting an Ancient Iranian Capital, 1923-1935
December 3, 2000 - May 6, 2001

Sackler Gallery
India through the Lens: Photography 1840-1911
December 3, 2000 - March 25, 2001

Sackler Gallery

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