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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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    InSight: Photos and Stories from the Archives Added

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    InSight: Photos and Stories from the Archives

    InSight features images from the Archives Center that give an intimate view of Indigenous lives.

    May 23, 2025 – TBD

    American Indian Museum DC

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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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    Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God Added

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    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

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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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    Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints Added

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    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

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    Asia Trail Added

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    Asia Trail

    Giant pandas, red pandas, Asian small-clawed otters, clouded leopards, fishing cats, and sloth bears are the residents along Asia Trial.

    January 24, 2025 – Indefinitely

    National Zoo

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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, femme people, and their communities, and themes related to the power of motherhood and sisterly solidarity.

    December 13, 2024 – Ongoing

    African Art Museum

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

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    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

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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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    Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial Added

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    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

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    Japanese Art from the Collection Added

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    Japanese Art from the Collection

    This exhibition highlights both iconic and lesser-known aspects of Japanese culture through paintings and ceramics from the Freer Gallery of Art Collection.

    October 26, 2024 – Ongoing

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

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    Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return Added

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    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

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    NASA’s Earth Information Center @ NMNH Added

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    NASA’s Earth Information Center @ NMNH

    Explore high-resolution data visualizations, interactive experiences, and videos that share how scientists collect and interpret data from a variety of sources.

    October 8, 2024 Through 2028

    Natural History Museum

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    OSGEMEOS: Endless Story Added

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    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

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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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    Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY Begay Added

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    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


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