Exhibitions

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family in car

Unidentified, Family posed inside a car, ca. 1950.

Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman

Smithsonian Announces ExxonMobil Sponsorship of Traveling Exhibition on “Green Book” History
03.07.2019
Traveling Exhibition Service 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
Operation Lam Son 719

Tiffany Chung, "Operation Lam Son 719, 30 Jan.-6 April 1971." 2018, acrylic, ink, and oil and vellum and paper. Courtesy of the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York. Copyright Tiffany Chung.

“Vietnam, Past Is Prologue” by Internationally Acclaimed Artist Tiffany Chung Opens March 15 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Exhibition Includes New Work Commissioned by the Museum
03.04.2019
American Women's History Museum American Art Museum Exhibitions
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
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 Women's History Museum American History Museum Exhibitions
Asante Bell

Kwaku Bempha (Asante artist) and unidentified blacksmith
Active early 20th century, Ghana
Double bell (dawuro, nnawuta) c. 1920
Iron, wood

Fowler Museum at UCLA, X87.1312

“Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths” Opens at Smithsonian April 17
International Traveling Exhibition Displays 225 Objects of Utility, Empowerment and Spiritual Potency
02.11.2019
African Art 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 Exhibitions
orchid
“Orchids: Amazing Adaptations” Opens Feb. 16  
02.07.2019
Smithsonian Gardens Exhibitions
Snake Eyes exhibition photo
Hirshhorn Extends Charline von Heyl’s Critically Acclaimed Exhibition for Three Additional Months Through April 21  
Museum Was Closed for 27 Days During the Government Shutdown
02.05.2019
Hirshhorn Museum Exhibitions
Burns, Miss Lucy, of C.U.W.S. in Jail

Burns, Miss Lucy, of C.U.W.S. in Jail WS109 Harris & Ewing Studio (active 1905 -1977) 1917

National Portrait Gallery Presents “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence”
Major Exhibition on the History of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S. Complete With the Most Comprehensive Catalog of the Movement in the Past 60 Years
02.04.2019
American Women's History Museum Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
Tranceflora, 2015–19; Sputniko! (Hiromi Ozaki)

Tranceflora, 2015–19; Sputniko! (Hiromi Ozaki) (Japanese, b. 1985) and Masaya Kushino (Japanese, b. 1982), Another Farm (Tokyo, Japan), in collaboration with National Agricultural and Research Organization (NARO) (Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, founded 2006) and Hosoo (Kyoto, Japan, founded 1688); Glowing transgenic silk; Photo by So Morimoto

Credit:Cooper Hewitt

Cooper Hewitt and Cube Announce Projects for the 2019 Design Triennial
"Nature-Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial" Will Explore Design's Ability to Address Critical Issues Surrounding Nature, Climate and the Environment
02.01.2019
Cooper Hewitt Exhibitions
Woman wearing bedazzled hearing aid

Earring Aid, Bedazzled, 2014. Designed by Elana Langer. Swarovski crystals, e6000 glue, hearing aid. Gift of Elana Langer. Photo: © Hanna Agar.

COPYRIGHT:© Hanna Agar

"Access+Abilitiy" Exhibition to be Presented at the World Economic Forum's 2019 Annual Meeting
On View in Congress Centre Jan. 22-Jan. 25, 2019
12.17.2018
Cooper Hewitt Exhibitions
gallery rendering

Credit: Museum Environments/Branded Environments

Smithsonian Latino Center’s Molina Family Latino Gallery To Open in 2021 at the National Museum of American History  
Event Dec. 6 Previews Future Exhibitions and Programs
12.06.2018
American Latino Museum American History Museum Exhibitions
Two Guns Arikara

T. C. Cannon (1946–1978, Caddo/Kiowa), Two Guns Arikara, 1974–77. Acrylic and oil on canvas. Anne Aberbach and Family, Paradise Valley, Arizona. Copyright 2019 Estate of T. C. Cannon. The exhibition “T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America,” organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, runs April 6 to Sept. 16, 2019, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Photo by Thosh Collins.

Retrospective of Influential Native American Artist T.C. Cannon Makes Final Stop at National Museum of the American Indian in New York  
Exhibition Features Cannon’s Signature Paintings; Provides Multi-Dimensional View Through Artist’s Powerful Poetry and Music
11.29.2018
American Indian Museum Heye Center Exhibitions
Mother III

Credit: “Mother III” by Yun Suknam, acrylic on wood, 2018. Courtesy Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul. Photo by Yun Suknam.

National Portrait Gallery Presents “Portraits of the World: Korea”  
Featuring Work by Yun Suknam and Leading American Feminist Artists
11.19.2018
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
Nature image
Cooper Hewitt and Cube Design Museum to Co-organize 2019 Design Triennial
Exhibition to Simultaneously Open in U.S. and the Netherlands, May 2019
11.15.2018
Cooper Hewitt Exhibitions
American Womens History Initiative Logo
Smithsonian Launches American Women’s History Initiative
Highlights Include New Exhibitions and Collections Conservation
11.14.2018
American Women's History Museum Exhibitions Administrative News
Rendering for autonomous urbanism

Photorealistic rendering based off of concepts in the NACTO Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism. Copyright © 2017 Bloomberg Philanthropies. Reproduced with permission by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the National Association of City Transportation Officials.

Cooper Hewitt Explores The Future of Mobility in New Exhibition
"The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility" on View December 2018-March 2019
11.08.2018
Cooper Hewitt Exhibitions
Disrupting Craft exhibition

Dustin Farnsworth and Timothy Maddox, WAKE II, 2017, aquaresin, hydrostone, various polychrome, canvas and vinyl acrylic paint. Collection of the artist. 

Renwick Gallery Showcases Contemporary Artists Tanya Aguiñiga, Sharif Bey, Dustin Farnsworth and Stephanie Syjuco in “Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018”  
11.07.2018
American Art Museum Renwick Gallery Exhibitions
Pulse Room

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Pulse Room, 2006 at the Musée d´Art Contemporaine, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2014. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay.

Hirshhorn’s Largest Interactive Technology Exhibition Presents Major Installations From Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Acclaimed “Pulse” Series  
Museum Celebrates Artist’s DC Debut With Local Partnership
10.30.2018
Hirshhorn Museum Exhibitions
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"Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women” Exhibition Opens at Smithsonian
First In-depth Presentation Exploring the History, Techniques and Fashion of Gold Jewelry in Senegal
10.23.2018
African Art Museum Exhibitions
Aéroplane Captif

Aéroplane Captif (La Ronde des Aéroplanes)
W. J. Paans​. Brussels, 1909

Smithsonian Libraries Opens “Magnificent Obsessions”  
10.22.2018
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Exhibitions

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