Exhibitions

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Credit: “Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Robert Adelman, Gelatin silver print, 1963. National Portrait

Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Robert Adelman Estate

National Portrait Gallery Presents “In Mid-Sentence”
Exhibition Will Explore Speech as Captured in Photography
04.03.2019
Portrait Gallery Art Exhibitions
Caddo Head Pot

Caddo Head Pot, 2005
Jeri Redcorn (Caddo/Potawatomi, b. 1939), Norman, Oklahoma
Pottery, pigments
NMAI purchase from the artist, 2005 (26/5161)

“Ancestral Connections” Links the Past to the Present Through The Work of 10 Contemporary Artists
Exhibition Shows Native Heritage as Context and Inspiration for Art
04.02.2019
American Indian Museum Heye Center Exhibitions
Spanish style train station

Credit: Palm Springs train station, 1939. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Palm Springs Historical Society.

National Museum of the American Indian Presents “Section 14: The Other Palm Springs, California”
The Story of the Agua Caliente Band’s Struggle for Justice and Rights to Their Land in Palm Springs
03.28.2019
American Indian Museum Exhibitions
screenprint

Carlos Irizarry, Moratorium, 1969, screenprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denhausen Endowment, 2013.24.1 A-B

Copyright: 1969 Carlos Irizarry, Photo by Gene Young

“Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Examines How the Vietnam War Changed American Art
03.07.2019
American Art Museum Art Exhibitions
Space shuttle Discovery

The space shuttle Discovery is the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.

National Air and Space Museum Featured in Newest Google Arts & Culture Interactive Online Exhibit
03.06.2019
Air and Space Museum Exhibitions Science
America Forever sheet music cover

“America Forever! March” Sheet music cover, 1898  

Courtesy Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

Smithsonian Explores the Bold Experiment of American Democracy in New Traveling Exhibition
02.28.2019
Traveling Exhibition Service Exhibitions History
RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA artwork
Hirshhorn To Present Interactive Exhibition by Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija  
Exhibition Features Documentary Films Curated by Acclaimed Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul
02.25.2019
Hirshhorn Museum Exhibitions
Dolores Huerta speaks to United Farm Workers members

Dolores Huerta speaks to United Farm Workers members and supporters during an open-air meeting, location unknown, ca. 1970s
Unidentified photographer. Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan

Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Showcases Dolores Huerta’s Leading Role in the Farm Workers’ Movement  
Exhibition Opens March 9 at California Museum in Sacramento
02.21.2019
Traveling Exhibition Service Exhibitions
All Work and No Pay rendering
Women’s Invisible Labor Highlighted in New Smithsonian Exhibit
“All Work, No Pay” Opens at the National Museum of American History
02.21.2019
American History Museum Exhibitions
Drawing of man on house
Smithsonian American Art Museum Extends Critically Acclaimed Exhibition “Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor” for Three Weeks Through April 7
Museum Was Closed for 27 Days During Partial Government Shutdown
02.07.2019
American Art Museum Art Exhibitions
orchid
“Orchids: Amazing Adaptations” Opens Feb. 16  
02.07.2019
Smithsonian Gardens Exhibitions

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