Featured Exhibitions
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Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
September 28, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)Bill Traylor is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. His drawn and painted imagery embodies the crossroads of multiple worlds: black and white, rural and urban, old and new. His life—which spanned slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Great Migration and foreshadowed the era of Civil Rights—offers a rare perspective to the larger story of America. -
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen
June 21, 2018 — January 6, 2019
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)Trevor Paglen blurs the lines between art, science, and investigative journalism to construct unfamiliar and at times unsettling ways to see and interpret the world around us.
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Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs
April 6, 2018 — January 27, 2019
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)This exhibition traces the history of A box of ten photographs between 1969 and 1973, telling the crucial story of the portfolio that established the foundation for Arbus’s posthumous career.
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No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man
March 30, 2018 - January 21, 2019
Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man brings the large-scale work from this annual desert gathering to the nation’s capital for the first time.
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