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    Justin Favela: Capilla de Maíz (Maize Chapel) Added

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    Justin Favela: Capilla de Maíz (Maize Chapel)

    A site-specific installation that features shimmering gold-fringed walls and piñata corncobs that highlight the role of maize in North American visual culture.

    August 22, 2025 – TBD

    Renwick Gallery

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    State Fairs: Growing American Craft Added

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    State Fairs: Growing American Craft

    The first exhibition dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs.

    August 22, 2025 – September 7, 2026

    Renwick Gallery

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    Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post Added

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    Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post

    Through precisely inked and animated scenes, this video artwork critically considers the legacy of British colonialism in Asia.

    July 3, 2025 – July 12, 2026

    American Art Museum

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    Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs Added

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    Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs

    Cut + Paste showcases seventeen Japanese artists who pushed the limits of printmaking and photography and whose experimental works blur reality, memory, and even how we perceive space and time.

    June 21, 2025 – November 30, 2025

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

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    From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years Added

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    From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years

    This exhibition traces the evolution of the grand-scale, whole-plate photograph format from the high-end daguerreotype to the more affordable tintype.

    June 20, 2025 – June 7, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints from Mathew Brady’s Portrait Negatives Added

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    Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints from Mathew Brady’s Portrait Negatives

    The exhibition includes nine modern prints from Photographer Mathew Brady's original photographic negatives.

    May 23, 2025 – May 14, 2028

    Portrait Gallery

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    Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped Added

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    Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped

    Reasons to Gather presents eleven historic tea utensils and accessories that demonstrate accrued layers of historical and cultural meaning.

    April 12, 2025 – April 26, 2026

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

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    Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen Added

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    Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen

    Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen is landmark exhibition of new and recent paintings as well as a single-channel video work.

    April 4, 2025 – January 3, 2027

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Making a Statement Added

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    Making a Statement

    Two gowns worn by Oscar-nominated actor Lily Gladstone (Siksikaitsitapi [Blackfeet]/Nimiipuu [Nez Perce]) are on view.

    February 28, 2025 – March 2026

    American Indian Museum DC

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    Tsedaye Makonnen: Sanctuary :: መቅደስ :: Mekdes Added

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    Tsedaye Makonnen: Sanctuary :: መቅደስ :: Mekdes

    Explore sculptures that explore the dehumanization of Black women and themes related to the power of motherhood and sisterly solidarity.

    December 13, 2024 – Ongoing

    African Art Museum

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    The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture Added

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    The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture

    The Shape of Power examines the ways in which sculpture has shaped and reflected attitudes and understandings about race in the U.S.

    November 8, 2024 – September 14, 2025

    American Art Museum

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    Basquiat × Banksy Added

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    Basquiat × Banksy

    Basquiat’s Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump (1982) and Banksy’s response, Banksquiat, are placed in dialogue.

    September 29, 2024 – October 26, 2025

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Glenn Kaino: Bridge Added

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    Glenn Kaino: Bridge

    Glenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. 

    July 26, 2024 – Ongoing

    American Art Museum

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    Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room Added

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    Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room

    Ruffled Feathers offers visitors a chance to explore the Peacock Room’s tangled history and the personal and global forces that shaped it.

    July 13, 2024 – January 31, 2027

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

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    Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes Added

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    Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes

    This exhibition explores the views of New England portrayed by American painters William Metcalf, Dwight Tryon, Winslow Homer, and Abbott Thayer and how they have evolved and been reshaped over time.

    July 13, 2024 – July 26, 2026

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

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    Benin Bronzes Added

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    Benin Bronzes

    These artworks were some of the 29 pieces that were legally transferred to their country of origin, Nigeria, in fall 2022.

    June 3, 2024 – December 31, 2026

    African Art Museum

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    Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains Added

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    Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains

    This exhibition celebrates the full expression of narrative art among Native nations of the Great Plains.

    June 1, 2024 – January 20, 2026

    American Indian Museum DC

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    Reclaiming My Time

    Works by contemporary Black designers engage ideas about cultural heritage, bodies at rest, and histories of labor and leisure.

    May 31, 2024 – January 2026

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Do Ho Suh: Public Figures Added

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    Do Ho Suh: Public Figures

    A special edition of Do Ho Suh's work Public Figures is the first new sculpture installed outside the historic Freer Gallery of Art in over three decades.

    April 27, 2024 – April 29, 2029

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

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    Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960 Added

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    Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

    A major survey of artwork made during a transformative period characterized by new currents in science and philosophy, and ever-increasing mechanization.

    March 22, 2024 – November 29, 2026

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork Added

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    Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork

    Contemporary Japanese metalworking breathes life into traditional methods that have been passed down and practiced over generations. The artists featured in Striking Objects create masterpieces that combine tradition with creativity and innovation.

    March 2, 2024 – January 11, 2026

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

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    Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell Added

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    Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell

    George Hurrell created definitive, timeless images of many of the most glamorous figures of filmdom’s golden era.

    March 1, 2024 – January 4, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea Added

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    Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea

    This exhibition features tea bowls, water containers, and other vessels in the museum’s permanent collection that demonstrate the glazes and forms unique to Raku ware.

    December 9, 2023 – 2026

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

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    Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass

    Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of Frederick Douglass.

    December 8, 2023 – December 6, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass

    Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.

    December 8, 2023 – December 6, 2026

    American Art Museum

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