Featured Exhibitions
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Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
October 20, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) crafted her extraordinary “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death”–exquisitely detailed miniature crime scenes–to train homicide investigators to “convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell.”
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Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light
October 6, 2017 – January 7, 2018
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light restores Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968) to his rightful place in the history of modern art.
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Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
October 13, 2017 – March 11, 2018
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)This exhibition of prints from SAAM’s collection features the artist’s provocative take on the Civil War.
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Rick Araluce: The Final Stop
October 20, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)Araluce is an artist and scenic designer based in Seattle. His immersive, hyperreal environments, in the form of both room-sized installations and miniature works, reflect his fascination with forgotten and transitional spaces and with what lies hidden there.
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Kara Walker: Dark Shadows of History
For over two decades, African American artist Kara Walker has been making work that weaves together imagery from the antebellum South, the brutality of slavery, and racist stereotypes. Walker, one of the most prominent artists working today, emerged in the mid-1990s with incendiary, provocative works set in the past but that were very much about the present.