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  • Rinpa Screens

    Explore a selection of screens painted in the Rinpa style, a movement known for stylized forms in bright colors that spanned the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. 

    February 25, 2023 – February 4, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • 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

  • Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen

    On display for the first time since 1976 after a major conservation project, this Chinese lacquer screen dated to 1672 is a delight, featuring newly revealed intricate details that had been obscured by centuries of wear and use. 

    July 15, 2023 – January 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection

    Meeting Tessai highlights a transformative gift of early modern and modern Japanese paintings and calligraphy from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection.

    August 13, 2022 – January 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • 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

  • Kinship

    Kinship presents more than forty artworks by eight contemporary artists whose work explores the notion of “kinship” and the closeness that bonds us.

    October 28, 2022 – January 7, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • 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

  • Portrait of a Nation: 2022 Honorees

    This intimate exhibition features the portraits of the seven individuals who have been selected to receive one of the museum’s 2022 Portrait of a Nation Awards.

    November 10, 2022 – October 22, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Block by Block: Naming Washington

    Explore the namesakes of Washington, D.C.’s streets, avenues, neighborhoods, and other public spaces.

    July 30, 2021 – October 22, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • 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 Freer Gallery

  • 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 Sackler Gallery

  • I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker's Portraits of Remarkable Black Women: Part II

    The Portrait Gallery recently acquired all 75 portraits from the Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer’s series and is celebrating the acquisition with a two-part exhibition.

    February 10, 2023 – September 10, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • 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

  • 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 Sackler Gallery

  • Family Ties: Daguerreotype Portraits

    The portraits in this exhibition reflect the range of familial relationships documented by the camera during the daguerreian era.

    July 1, 2022 – June 11, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • 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

  • A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur

    With dazzling paintings on paper and cloth A Splendid Land reveals how artists conveyed emotions, depicted places, celebrated water resources, and fostered personal bonds over some two hundred years in the rapidly changing political and cultural landscapes of early modern South Asia.

    November 19, 2022 – May 14, 2023

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery


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