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  • John Akomfrah: Five Murmurations

    Five Mumurations considers Akomfrah’s insights into post-colonialism, diasporic experience, and memory.

    October 14, 2023 – August 24, 2025

    African Art Museum

  • Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God

    Delighting Krishna delves into the emotions and philosophy of the Pushtimarg tradition and the ingenuity of its artists.

    March 15, 2025 – August 24, 2025

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints

    The human form and the expressive power of photography and print media offer ways to examine the place of the individual in contemporary society.

    February 15, 2025 – August 17, 2025

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • ¡De última hora!: Latinas Report Breaking News

    Working in the fast-paced, ever-changing environment of broadcast news, these women shaped and shape the narrative for major historical events.

    September 15, 2023 – August 17, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo

    An in-depth look at three trailblazing American artists of Japanese descent in the story of modernism.

    November 15, 2024 – August 17, 2025

    American Art Museum

  • Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial

    Making Home explores the concept of home, bringing together wide-ranging perspectives on how design impacts and transforms lived experiences.

    November 2, 2024 – August 10, 2025

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • OSGEMEOS: Endless Story

    Explore works by Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, highlighting their playful combination of universal themes and shared imagination.

    September 29, 2024 – August 3, 2025

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross

    See early commissioned art, from the late 1960s, for Catholic priests and parishes from the celebrated Nigerian sculptor and printmaker.

    June 21, 2024 – July 27, 2025

    African Art Museum

  • ¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States

    The inaugural exhibition of the Molina Famliy Gallery, ¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States, reveals how Latinos have shaped the nation since before its founding.

    June 18, 2022 – July 20, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY Begay

    Sublime Light celebrates more than three decades of innovation by DY Begay and showcases 48 of her most remarkable tapestries.

    September 20, 2024 – July 13, 2025

    American Indian Museum DC

  • Forensic Science on Trial

    Explore historic cases where science has entered the courtroom and see how forensic science is used in the pursuit of justice.

    June 28, 2024 – July 6, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Pumpkin

    The whimsical sculpture embodies two of Kusama’s most recognized motifs: pumpkins and polka-dots.

    December 10, 2016 – July 6, 2025

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return

    Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return focuses on the artist’s deep engagement with portraiture and the construction of identity, as well as how history is told and inherited.

    October 18, 2024 – July 6, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists

    The artists featured in We Gather at the Edge honor the Black story quilt tradition with work that envisions a more just and connected world.

    February 21, 2025 – June 22, 2025

    Renwick Gallery

  • Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection

    To mark the presidential election of 2024, this exhibition presents daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits of eight men–from John Quincy Adams to Chester Arthur–who held the nation’s highest office during the nineteenth century.

    May 31, 2024 – June 8, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island

    Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen's video work The Island (2017) is shown for the first time with Bidong Spirit I, a sculpted headdress Nguyen created for the film.

    August 16, 2024 – June 8, 2025

    American Art Museum

  • In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World

    In Slavery's Wake examines how we think about, talk about, and represent the history of slavery, race, and globalization.

    December 13, 2024 – June 8, 2025

    African American History and Culture Museum

  • Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery

    View more than 100 works in a range of mediums from fiber and ceramics to glass, metal, wood, and mixed media.

    April 19, 2023 – June 8, 2025

    Renwick Gallery

  • Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples

    This exhibition sheds light on the stories and faces of five couples whose work and lives shaped the nation around them during tumultuous times.

    July 1, 2022 – May 18, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Janet Echelman's 1.8 Renwick

    Echelman’s colorful fiber and lighting installation examines the complex interconnections between human beings and our physical world.

    September 18, 2020 – May 13, 2025

    Renwick Gallery

  • Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

    This poignant exhibition tells personal stories of Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Native veterans who have served in the armed forces of the United States.

    June 17, 2024 – April 29, 2025

    American Indian Museum DC

  • The Print Generation

    The Print Generation presents a selection of creative prints that challenged the dominant narrative of what it meant to be an artist in twentieth-century Japan.

    November 16, 2024 – April 27, 2025

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance

    Viewing Baldwin in the context of his community reveals how his sexuality, faith, artistic curiosities, and notions of masculinity helped define his writing and long-lasting legacy.

    July 12, 2024 – April 20, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Our Places: Connecting People and Nature

    Our Places explores how peoples’ experiences with nature inspire them to connect, care, and act.

    July 1, 2022 – March 28, 2025

    Natural History Museum

  • Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social Change

    Music HerStory explores the countless contributions of women changemakers, groundbreakers, and tradition-bearers.

    June 22, 2022 – March 24, 2025

    American History Museum


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