Smithsonian

Lincoln's Contemporaries

Who were Abraham Lincoln’s contemporaries? They included many fascinating people beyond the politicians and military leaders of the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln Mathew Brady P.T. Barnum Samuel Morse Teresa Carreño Henry Ward Beecher

Friday 13 May 2016 to Sunday 12 May 2019
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Modern Medicine and the Great War

World War I provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, and in some cases accelerated their general acceptance or development. At the same time, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early twentieth century America, as the country coped with ever more complex problems of modern industrial society.

Friday 31 March 2017 to Tuesday 01 January 2019
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations

From a young age, most Americans learn about the Founding Fathers, but are told very little about equally important and influential Native diplomats and leaders of Indian nations.

Sunday 21 September 2014 to Saturday 01 September 2018
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s

Brand New is the first museum exhibition to examine the artistic appropriation of commercial products in the late 20th century, a pivotal moment when artwork became a commodity and the artist became a brand.

Cindy Sherman Richard Prince Barbara Bloom Vito Acconci Jeff Koons Peter Halley Ashley Bickerton Jessica Diamond General Idea Felix González Torres Peter Nagy Joel Otterson Pruitt Early Meyer Vaisman Julia Wachtel

Wednesday 14 February 2018 to Sunday 13 May 2018
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Trailblazers: 100 Years of Our National Parks

Did you know that a village at the bottom of the Grand Canyon eats most of its mail? Or that America’s newest national park was once so secret it used an undercover address? 100 Years of America’s National Parks, a two-year temporary exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum, will chronicle these and numerous other intersections between mail and our national parks.

Thursday 09 June 2016 to Sunday 25 March 2018
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Tamayo: The New York Years

Rufino Tamayo’s lushly colored paintings portraying modern Mexican subjects earned him widespread acclaim as an artist who balanced universal themes with a local sensibility.

Rufino Tamayo

Friday 03 November 2017 to Sunday 18 March 2018
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Executive Order 9066

February 19, 2017, is the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. This three-page document signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the course of history for a segment of Americans of Japanese ancestry in America, and challenged the constitutional rights of these Americans.

Sunday 19 February 2017 to Sunday 28 January 2018
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Mark Bradford

Renowned American artist Mark Bradford (b. Los Angeles, California, 1961) creates large-scale, site-specific paintings that will occupy the entire circumference—almost 400 feet—of the Hirshhorn’s Inner Ring Galleries, forming a monumental circular “cyclorama” that will offer an evocative, immersive experience for our visitors.

Mark Bradford

Thursday 17 November 2016 to Sunday 17 September 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Native Fashion Now

From vibrant street clothing to exquisite haute couture, this exhibition celebrates the visual range, creative expression and political nuance of Native American fashion.

Friday 17 February 2017 to Monday 04 September 2017
Art special_event in District of Columbia, United States.

Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years

This is the first exhibition to focus on the early career of Peter Voulkos, who completely re-invented his medium of proper ceramics technique and form. Aproximately thirty-five examples from this crucial body of early work will be featured along with a specific and detailed acoount of the breakthrough works.

Peter Voulkos

Friday 07 April 2017 to Sunday 20 August 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

June Schwarcz

The exhibition will be the first retrospective spanning of the artist's entire career including works never seen before in public from her personal collection. June Schwarcz was the foremost enamellist in the country and known for her innovatatively designed vessels.

June Schwarcz

Friday 10 March 2017 to Sunday 20 August 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Down These Mean Streets

The exhibition examines how Latino photographers depicted America’s urban streets when notions of the inner city began to emerge. The title of the exhibition is taken from Piri Thomas’ bestselling memoir Down These Mean Streets (1967), in which the author narrates his tough upbringing in New York City’s El Barrio.

Friday 12 May 2017 to Sunday 06 August 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

George Catlin's American Buffalo

The exhibition and related book George Catlin’s American Buffalo explore Catlin’s representation of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans through forty original paintings by the artist.

George Catlin

Friday 12 May 2017 to Sunday 06 August 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Gateways/Portales

Gateway: any entrance or passage that may be opened and closed.

Monday 05 December 2016 to Sunday 06 August 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Double Take: Daguerreian Portrait Pairs

Often we associate one image with a person from history especially in a museum setting. This show highlights the depth of the National Portrait Gallery’s early photography collection, featuring fourteen historic daguerreotypes—two portraits each of famous mid-19th century figures, including Frederick Douglass, Jenny Lind, Zachary Taylor and Jefferson Davis.

Friday 17 June 2016 to Sunday 04 June 2017
Art exhibition in United States.

The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire

Construction of the Inka Road stands as one of the monumental engineering achievements in history.

Friday 26 June 2015 to Thursday 01 June 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

One Life: Babe Ruth

This American baseball legend was an icon and media sensation. Before the commercialization of sports superstars became commonplace,

Friday 24 June 2016 to Sunday 21 May 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors

Spanning more than five decades, this exhibition focuses on the evolution of the Japanese artist’s immersive, multi-relfective infinity Mirror Rooms. At least five immersive rooms are included, along with a selection of the artist’s infinity net paintings, recent paintings, and archival material.

Yayoi Kusama

Thursday 23 February 2017 to Sunday 14 May 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Linn Meyers: Our View from Here

Linn Meyers (American, b. Washington, DC, 1968) will create her largest work to date, Our View from Here, at the Hirshhorn this spring. The site-specific wall drawing, which occupies the entire circumference of the inner ring galleries will cover nearly 400 linear feet. The drawing is temporary and will be painted over at the end of the exhibition’s yearlong run.

Linn Meyers

Sunday 22 May 2016 to Sunday 14 May 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Bill Viola and the Moving Portrait

Video-art pioneer Bill Viola believes that cameras are the keepers of souls. From the moment he first picked up a video camera as an art student in 1970, he was captured by the technology.

Bill Viola

Friday 18 November 2016 to Sunday 07 May 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

Offering creative, alternative approaches to confronting textile waste, Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse will present the work of three designers who put sustainability at the heart of the design process.

Friday 23 September 2016 to Sunday 16 April 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Pumpkin

Legendary painter, sculptor and performance artist Kusama (b. 1929, Tokyo, Japan) uses the pumpkin as a signature form, embracing the gourd as both an allegory and a form of self-portraiture in paintings, drawings, sculptures, and some of her most important installations.

Yayoi Kusama Kusama

Saturday 10 December 2016 to Monday 20 March 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern

Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern brings together more than eighty works, nearly all on loan from The Noguchi Museum, made over six decades. Featured works include several monolithic basalt sculptures, fountains, and floating Akari ceiling lights, as well as works that use stone, water, and light to evoke nature and call to mind elemental structures in civilization across time.

Isamu Noguchi

Friday 11 November 2016 to Sunday 19 March 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten

This installation, presented in celebration of the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, features thirty-nine images, all works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection.

Carl Van Vechten

Friday 26 August 2016 to Sunday 19 March 2017
Art benefit in District of Columbia, United States.

New York City: A Portrait Through Stamp Art

This exhibition of original artwork explores the diversity of topics highlighting the cultural heritage of New York City. Thirty pieces of original artwork divided into six categories—Baseball, Broadway, City Life, Icons, Politics and Government, and Music—depict a variety of art styles and mediums used to create some of America’s most beautiful stamps.

Thursday 10 December 2015 to Monday 13 March 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Suspended Animation

The exhibition brings together six artists who use computer animation in their work: Ed Atkins, Antoine Catala, Ian Cheng, Josh Kline, Helen Marten and Agnieszka Polska.

Josh Kline Helen Marten Ed Atkins Antoine Catala Ian Cheng Agnieszka Polska

Wednesday 10 February 2016 to Sunday 12 March 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Artificial Heart Valves

The history of medical advancement in America has been one of trial and risk. Today, heart valve operations are routine, but developing a successful mechanical valve involved years of experimentation with materials and design by a small team of doctors after World War II.

Friday 30 September 2016 to Wednesday 01 March 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

By the People: Designing a Better America

The third exhibition of Cooper Hewitt’s humanitarian design series will examine how design is challenging social and economic inequality across America.

Cynthia E. Smith

Friday 30 September 2016 to Sunday 26 February 2017
Art exhibition in United States.

The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

In recognition of one of the world’s extraordinary collections of Qur’ans, the Freer|Sackler is hosting a landmark exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States. Some fifty of the most sumptuous manuscripts from Herat to Istanbul will be featured in The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, opening this fall.

Saturday 15 October 2016 to Monday 20 February 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.

Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko

Created more than five centuries apart, an imperial Chinese porcelain dish and a painting by Mark Rothko—unexpectedly brought together in visual dialogue—reveal the immensity of the color red. The richly layered tonalities of both the porcelain dish and the oil and acrylic painting were achieved in dramatically different ways, but they uncannily echo each other.

Mark Rothko

Saturday 03 September 2016 to Monday 20 February 2017
Art exhibition in District of Columbia, United States.