Featured Exhibitions
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Chiura Obata: American Modern
November 27, 2019 — May 25, 2020
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)Japanese-born artist Chiura Obata’s seemingly effortless synthesis of different art traditions defies the usual division between “East” and “West.” This exhibition presents the most comprehensive survey of his rich and varied body of work to date, from bold California landscape paintings to intimate drawings of his experiences of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. -
Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists
October 11, 2019 - April12, 2020
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists examines representations of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans on the Great Plains in the 1830s and in the twentieth century. -
Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
March 29, 2019 - Ongoing
Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)Connections is the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world. The installation includes iconic favorites alongside new acquisitions.
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