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  • Represent: Hip-Hop Photography

    Inspired by the four elements of hip-hop—DJ’s, MCs, breakdancers and graffiti—Represent showcases photographs from the Eyejammie Hip Hop Photography Collection alongside other images from the museum’s photography collection.

    May 6, 2022 – September 25, 2022

    African American History and Culture Museum

  • Foreign Exchange: 18th-Century Design on the Move

    Drawing from the permanent collection, this exhibition explores the unprecedented circulation of labor, skills, aesthetics, and luxury goods across international borders in the 18th century.

    January 28, 2022 – September 25, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia's Sacred Mountain

    Revealing Krishna transports visitors to a sacred mountain in the floodplains of southern Cambodia.

    April 30, 2022 – September 18, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe

    Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe traces more than forty years of the artist’s career and development from early conventional work created while in high school in the 1930s through the emergence in the 1950s and 1960s of his innovative and abstract approach to painting.

    March 12, 2022 – September 11, 2022

    American Indian Museum New York

  • Sam Gilliam: Full Circle

    Gilliam’s first solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn reflects the breadth of his multilayered practice and marks the first exhibition in Gilliam’s chosen hometown of Washington, D.C., since 2007. 

    May 25, 2022 – September 11, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • The Power to See Beauty: Charles Lang Freer

    Who has “the power to see beauty”? How much do you need to know to appreciate a work of art from another culture or historical era? Our museum founder Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919) asked himself these fundamental questions as he prepared to transfer his personal collection of Asian antiquities and American tonalist paintings to a new public museum on the National Mall.

    October 14, 2017 – September 6, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Watergate: Portraiture and Intrigue

    On the fiftieth anniversary of the Watergate break-in, this exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery's collection, brings visitors face-to-face with the scandal's cast of characters.

    March 25, 2022 – September 5, 2022

    Portrait Gallery

  • Duro Olowu Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection

    Olowu’s exhibition highlights the theme of pattern and repetition throughout the collection, demonstrating how designers, artists, and makers have relied on pattern to express ideas, preserve heritage, capture attention, and construct objects and environments.

    March 18, 2022 – August 28, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Laurie Anderson: The Weather

    Laurie Anderson: The Weather is the largest-ever U.S. exhibition of artwork by celebrated multimedia artist Laurie Anderson. 

    September 24, 2021 – August 7, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Heroes: Principles of African Greatness

    Heroes features a selection of masterworks from the the museum's permanent collection in a new, dynamic installation that tells the story of key heroic principles and people in Africa’s arts and history.

    November 16, 2019 – August 1, 2022

    African Art Museum

  • Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from Nature

    From the 1890s to the 1920s, Sophia Crownfield designed prints for some of the most prominent silk and wallpaper manufacturers in the United States.

    February 4, 2022 – July 31, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Abigail DeVille: Light of Freedom

    Abigail DeVille's 13-foot-tall sculpture responds to the Black Lives Matter movement within the larger context of America's long relationship to the idea of liberty itself.

    October 15, 2021 – July 26, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan

    This exhibition showcases the breadth of the museum’s medieval Zen collections, highlighting rare and striking works from Japan and China to illustrate the visual, spiritual, and philosophical power of Zen.

    March 5, 2022 – July 24, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Falcons: The Art of the Hunt

    A selection of paintings and objects from ancient Egypt to China offer a glimpse into the fascinating world of falcons.

    January 15, 2022 – July 17, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • FUTURES

    Part exhibition, part festival, FUTURES presents nearly 32,000 square feet of new immersive site-specific art installations, interactives, working experiments, inventions, speculative designs, and “artifacts of the future,” as well as historic objects and discoveries from the Smithsonian.

    November 20, 2021 – July 6, 2022

    Arts and Industries Building

  • Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection

    This exhibition features the recent gift of over 50 major historical artworks, including more than 35 seminal works by Duchamp, promised to the museum by Washington, D.C., collectors Barbara and Aaron Levine.

    November 9, 2019 – June 5, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • The Peacock Room in Blue and White

    The Peacock Room in Blue and White fills the room’s shelving with blue-and-white Chinese porcelains, inspired by room’s appearance in 1876 when it was the dining room of Frederick Leyland, a shipping magnate in London.

    May 18, 2019 – June 1, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, 1968-2020

    The National Portrait Gallery presents the first major large-scale retrospective of work by Hung Liu, the internationally acclaimed Chinese-born American artist.

    August 27, 2021 – May 30, 2022

    Portrait Gallery

  • Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

    This exhibition focuses on a selection of extraordinary seventeenth-century textiles and full-length portraits from Safavid Iran. Fine illustrated manuscript folios from our collections are also included in the exhibition.

    December 18, 2021 – May 15, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano

    Experience the spectacle of Venice and its rich history as a glassmaking capital through Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano.

    October 8, 2021 – May 8, 2022

    American Art Museum

  • Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer

    The largest-ever exhibition of works by graphic design pioneer E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890–1954) traces the designer’s transformative role in integrating avant-garde style into modern life.

    September 10, 2021 – April 10, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory

    The exhibition features a recent body of work in the form of a monumental cycle of 40 large-scale, monochromatic drawings that chronicle a myth conceived by the artist.

    November 19, 2021 – April 3, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Dewing's Poetic World

    Exploring Dewing’s social connections reveals how his art was influenced by his friendships with Charles Lang Freer, who encouraged him to pursue Japonisme, and with architect Stanford White, who designed the elaborate frames for many of his paintings on view in this intriguing exhibition.

    November 27, 2019 – April 3, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Unsettled Nature: Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans

    Unsettled Nature offers visitors the opportunity to explore the unparalleled, ubiquitous and still-growing mark that humanity is making on the world through 16 works of art.

    June 18, 2021 – March 7, 2022

    Natural History Museum

  • New Glass Now

    New Glass Now documents the innovation and dexterity of artists, designers, and architects from around the world working in the challenging material of glass. This global survey is designed to highlight the breadth and depth of contemporary glass making.

    October 22, 2021 – March 6, 2022

    Renwick Gallery

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