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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 one of the most celebrated American self-taught artists. 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.

• Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975

  

  March 15, 2019 — August 18, 2019

  Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)

  Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975 explores artistic reactions to the Vietnam War created during the height of the US intervention in Southeast Asia. An unpopular and internally divisive conflict, America’s war in Vietnam had a pervasive cultural impact.

• Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue

  

  March 15, 2019 — August 25, 2019

  Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)

  Internationally acclaimed artist Tiffany Chung (b. 1969, Da Nang, Vietnam) is known for her multimedia work that explores migration, conflict, and shifting geographies in the wake of political and natural upheavals.