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  • American Myth and Memory: David Levinthal Photographs

    American Myth and Memory: David Levinthal Photographs brings together six of the artist’s best-known bodies of work to explore some myths found in American popular culture and their place in our collective memory.

    June 7, 2019 – October 14, 2019

    American Art Museum

  • Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths

    Striking Iron reveals the history of invention and technical sophistication that led African blacksmiths to transform one of Earth’s most basic natural resources into objects of life-changing utility, empowerment, prestige, spiritual potency, and astonishing artistry.

    April 17, 2019 – October 14, 2019

    African Art Museum

  • Bloom: Flowers from the Archives of American Art

    Sketches and drawings of flowers from our collections provide a fascinating opportunity to examine flowers from both an artistic and scientific point of view.

    March 2, 2019 – October 6, 2019

    Archives of American Art

  • T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America

    T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America celebrates Cannon’s creative range and artistic legacy through numerous paintings and works on paper, as well as his poetry and music.

    April 6, 2019 – September 16, 2019

    American Indian Museum New York

  • The Evidence Room

    Designed and built for the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, The Evidence Room draws upon extensive archival research to recreate incriminating architectural features of Auschwitz that were dismantled and destroyed by the Nazis at the end of WWII.

    June 12, 2019 – September 8, 2019

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Scholten & Baijings: Lessons from the Studio

    An interactive installation of industrial design from the award-winning Dutch design studio on view in the Process lab, where visitors can explore the studio’s experiments with form, material, and color.

    September 14, 2018 – September 2, 2019

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Enrico David: Gradations of Slow Release

    Enrico David has distinguished himself as one of the most original artists working today, fashioning a universe of imagery that revolves around the human figure and its many states of being.

    April 16, 2019 – September 2, 2019

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is Prologue

    Internationally acclaimed artist Tiffany Chung is known for her multimedia work that explores migration, conflict, and shifting geographies in the wake of political and natural upheavals.

    March 15, 2019 – September 2, 2019

    American Art Museum

  • Eye to I: Self Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery

    As we are confronted each day with “selfies” via social media, and as we continue to explore the fluidity of contemporary identity, this is an opportune time to reassess the significance of self-portraiture in relation to our country’s history

    November 2, 2018 – August 18, 2019

    Portrait Gallery

  • Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975

    Artistic reactions to the Vietnam War created during the height of the US intervention in Southeast Asia are explored.

    March 15, 2019 – August 18, 2019

    American Art Museum

  • Rirkrit Tiravanija: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green

    On view is the newly acquired full-gallery Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green (2010), an installation work of relational aesthetics by Rirkrit Tiravanija.

    May 17, 2019 – July 24, 2019

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Beautiful Blooms: Flowering Plants on Stamps

    This exhibition highlights the variety of flowering plants commemorated on US postage stamps during the past 50 years and explores artistic themes that emerged during this period.

    October 20, 2017 – July 14, 2019

    Postal Museum

  • In Memoriam: Leah Chase

    The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life and legacy of Leah Chase with a painting by Gustave Blache III.

    June 4, 2019 – June 30, 2019

    Portrait Gallery

  • In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth)

    Situated on the museum’s outdoor plaza overlooking the National Mall, the participatory installation is open daily, weather permitting, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

    June 8, 2019 – June 23, 2019

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Empresses of China's Forbidden City, 1644-1912

    The lives of the Qing dynasty empresses offer a compelling tale of opulence and influence as told in this first-ever, in-depth exhibition of the subject.

    March 30, 2019 – June 23, 2019

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Rebeca Méndez Selects

    Artist and designer Rebeca Méndez draws connections across the diverse collections of Cooper Hewitt, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian Libraries to explore how culture, design, technology, and the natural world have converged.

    October 5, 2018 – June 16, 2019

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • In Memoriam: I. M. Pei

    The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life and legacy of acclaimed architect I.M. Pei with a photograph by Armenian Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh.

    May 17, 2019 – June 5, 2019

    Portrait Gallery

  • Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of Collecting

    The 2018 installation of the Daguerreian Gallery celebrates the National Portrait Gallery’s golden anniversary by highlighting fifty years of daguerreotype collecting by the museum.

    June 15, 2018 – June 2, 2019

    Portrait Gallery

  • Models & Prototypes

    Models & Prototypes showcases the exceptional models of staircases donated to Cooper Hewitt by Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.

    December 12, 2014 – May 27, 2019

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Moustiers Ceramics: Gifts from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Collection

    Showcasing nearly 60 works of faience alongside prints and textiles related to the flourishing of this elegant earthenware, the exhibition celebrates the substantial gift of Moustiers ceramics from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw collection to Cooper Hewitt.

    May 20, 2017 – May 27, 2019

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey

    One Year: 1968 looks back at an extraordinarily important and memorable time in American history.

    June 29, 2018 – May 19, 2019

    Portrait Gallery

  • Lincoln's Contemporaries

    This exhibition features Mathew Brady’s portraits of twenty celebrities—from showman P.T. Barnum and inventor Samuel Morse to musician Teresa Carreño and clergyman Henry Ward Beecher—who reflect the diversity of American intellectual and cultural life during Lincoln’s presidency.

    May 13, 2016 – May 12, 2019

    Portrait Gallery

  • Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018

    Disrupting Craft presents the work of Tanya Aguiñiga, Sharif Bey, Dustin Farnsworth, and Stephanie Syjuco.

    November 9, 2018 – May 5, 2019

    Renwick Gallery

  • The Historical Buddha and Friends

    This exhibition features several figures that hold great meaning in Japanese Buddhism.

    November 3, 2018 – May 5, 2019

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Garden Inspirations

    Drawing inspiration from images in the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Gardens, these miniature landscapes are small-scale works of art designed to spur creativity.

    September 3, 2016 – May 4, 2019

    Ripley Center


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