Current Exhibitions
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- Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960 March 22, 2024 – April 20, 2025 Hirshhorn
- Artists at Work March 20, 2024 – March 21, 2025 S. Dillon Ripley Center
- Change YOUR Game March 15, 2024 – Ongoing American History Museum
- Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork March 2, 2024 – January 11, 2026 Sackler Gallery
- Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell March 1, 2024 – January 4, 2026 Portrait Gallery
- Commissioned Portrait of Oprah Winfrey December 13, 2023 – December 15, 2024 Portrait Gallery
- Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea December 9, 2023 – 2026 Freer Gallery of Art
- Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass December 8, 2023 – December 6, 2026 American Art Museum
- Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass December 8, 2023 – November 26, 2026 Portrait Gallery
- Recent Acquisitions, 2023 November 3, 2023 – October 26, 2025 Portrait Gallery
- John Akomfrah: Five Murmurations October 14, 2023 – August 24, 2025 African Art Museum
- Human/Nature: Why People Are Drawn to Living Things September 30, 2023 – Summer 2025 S. Dillon Ripley Center
- Galleries for Modern and Contemporary Art September 22, 2023 – Ongoing American Art Museum
- ¡De última hora!: Latinas Report Breaking News September 15, 2023 – May 2026 American History Museum
- Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life July 14, 2023 – January 5, 2025 Hirshhorn
- Cellphone: Unseen Connections June 23, 2023 Through 2026 Natural History Museum
- Treasures and Trouble: Looking Inside a Legendary Blues Archive June 23, 2023 – Ongoing American History Museum
- Connecting Stories at the National Museum of Asian Art April 29, 2023 – Ongoing Sackler Gallery
- From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson April 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025 African Art Museum
- Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery April 19, 2023 – June 8, 2025 Renwick Gallery
- The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas March 25, 2023 – Ongoing Sackler Gallery
- Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky March 23, 2023 – December 2025 Natural History Museum
- Smithsonian Stories: African American Groundbreakers March 6, 2023 – Ongoing S. Dillon Ripley Center
- Abraham Lincoln by W.F.K. Travers February 10, 2023 – December 31, 2027 Portrait Gallery
- A Collector's Eye: Freer in Egypt January 28, 2023 – Ongoing Freer Gallery of Art
- (re) Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946-1965 December 9, 2022 – Ongoing American History Museum
- Entertainment Nation December 9, 2022 – Indefinitely American History Museum
- Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture November 18, 2022 – January 2025 African American History and Culture Museum
