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No Mountains in the Way - Washington, District Of Columbia
February 26 - July 31, 2016 - The installation of 63 vintage prints from this survey of 120 photographs, are all works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection. Forty years later, No Mountains in the Way remains an important document of American photography. It is the record of a particular American place. It is also the record of a time when NEA support shap...
Dates:February 26, 2016 11:00 am to July 31, 2016 07:00 pm
Address: 8th and F Streets, Washington, District Of Columbia 20004 , United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:American Art Museum
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/No-Mountains-in-the-Way-6016
Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan - District Of Columbia
March 5, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - This exhibition transforms the International Gallery into a visit to Old Kabul. Artisans from Murad Khani demonstrate their work and share their experiences, allowing visitors to appreciate Afghanistan’s rich culture and national pride. Decades of civil unrest nearly destroyed Afghanistan’s vital artistic heritage. Over the past decade, Tur...
Dates:March 05, 2016 10:00 am to January 29, 2017 05:00 pm
Address:1050 Independence Ave., District Of Columbia 20560, United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Turquoise-Mountain-Artists-Transforming-Afghanistan-5975
The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today - Washington, District Of Columbia
March 12, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - This exhibition features 43 pieces including sculptures, mixed-media pieces, photographs, paintings and drawings. The jurors considered this exhibition a synopsis of historical and cultural events that have unfolded in the past three rounds, particularly in terms of race, sexual identity, gender and concerns about protecting childhood in an age of technology and ...
Dates:March 12, 2016 11:00 am to January 08, 2017 07:00 pm
Address: 8th and F Streets, Washington, District Of Columbia 20004 , United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:Portrait Gallery
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/The-Outwin-2016-American-Portraiture-Today-5991
Symbolic Cities: The Work of Ahmed Mater - Washington, District Of Columbia
March 19 – September 18, 2016 - Mater has focused primarily on photography and video since 2010. From abandoned desert cities to the extraordinary transformation of Mecca, Symbolic Cities presents his visual and aural journeys observing economic and urban change in Saudi Arabia. The exhibition, the first in the United States solely dedicated to Mater, also debuts new works based on his...
Dates:March 19, 2016 10:00 am to September 18, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:1050 Independence Ave., Washington, District Of Columbia 20560, United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Symbolic-Cities-The-Work-of-Ahmed-Mater-6047
The Blue Note Photographs of Francis Wolff - Washington, District Of Columbia
April 1 - July 1, 2016 - This Archives Center case features photographs of jazz musicians. Francis Wolff was the co-founder of Blue Note Records as well as the photographer who created most of the company’s record album cover images. Large photographic prints on display depict such luminaries as Art Blakey, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis in the 1950s-1960s.
Dates:April 01, 2016 10:00 am to July 01, 2016 05:00 pm
Address: 12th and Constitution Ave., NW Washington, DC , Washington, District Of Columbia 20001, United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:American History Museum
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/The-Blue-Note-Photographs-of-Francis-Wolff-6088
Women of Influence Elmira Bier, Minnie Byers, and Marjorie Phillips - Washington, District Of Columbia
April 1, 2016 - April 2, 2017 - The exhibition examines the critical role that each woman played in the day to day activities of The Phillips Collection over six decades.
Dates:April 01, 2016 10:00 am to April 02, 2017 05:00 pm
Address:1600 21st Street, Washington, District Of Columbia 20009 , United States
Phone:202-387-2151
Contact:The Phillips Collection
Website:https://www.yundle.com/directory/detail/the-phillips-collection
Hollywood and Time: Celebrity Covers - Washington, District Of Columbia
April 1, 2016 – September 11, 2016 - Hollywood personalities who once graced theater marquees across America are featured in original cover art commissioned by Time magazine. Included are vintage portraits of stars like Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep, as well as Oscar-winning directors Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen. The show foc...
Dates:April 01, 2016 11:00 am to September 11, 2016 07:00 pm
Address:8th and F Streets, NW Washington, DC , Washington, District Of Columbia 20001, United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:Portrait Gallery
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Hollywood-and-Time-Celebrity-Covers-5992
Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change - Washington, District Of Columbia
April 7, 2016 – September 5, 2016 - The first museum exhibition to focus exclusively on Irwin’s extraordinary trajectory between 1958 and 1970 charts the artist’s remarkable course from the early small abstractions and larger “pick-up stick” paintings, through the line paintings and dot paintings, into the aluminum and acrylic discs, the acrylic columns, and, finally,...
Dates:April 07, 2016 10:00 am to September 05, 2016 05:00 pm
Address: 7th and Independence Ave., Washington, District Of Columbia 20001, United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Robert-Irwin-All-the-Rules-Will-Change-6003
Painting with Words: Gentleman Artists of the Ming Dynasty - Washington, District Of Columbia
April 16, 2016 – July 24, 2016 - Poetry, painting, and calligraphy: Known as the “Three Perfections,” these genres were regarded as the ultimate expressions of Chinese literati culture during the Ming dynasty (1369–1644). Members of the Wu School, centered on the affluent city of Suzhou and nearby towns, earned admiration for their interpretations of these art forms. Painti...
Dates:April 16, 2016 10:00 am to July 24, 2016 05:00 pm
Address: 1050 Independence Ave., Washington, District Of Columbia 20560, United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Painting-with-Words-Gentleman-Artists-of-the-Ming-Dynasty-6052
In Memoriam: Prince - Washington, District Of Columbia
April 22, 2016 – May 31, 2016 - The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life and accomplishments of Prince Nelson with a photograph by Lynn Goldsmith. The image was taken in 1993. Prince’s music fused soul and rock ’n’ roll with incandescent showmanship and virtuoso guitar work. From the unlikely outpost of Minneapolis, his first club hits featu...
Dates:April 22, 2016 11:00 am to May 31, 2016 07:00 pm
Address: 8th and F Streets, Washington, District Of Columbia 20004, United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:Portrait Gallery
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/In-Memoriam-Prince-6096
Finding: Source Material in the Archives of American Art - Washington, District Of Columbia
April 22 – August 21, 2016 - In this exhibition, the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art reveals how artists find inspiration. The Archives’ collections hold a kaleidoscopic array of source materials; many of these materials are somewhat ordinary: comic- strip panels, newspaper clippings, and snapshots of mundane scenes. Yet the ways in which artists draw on them provides a gl...
Dates:April 22, 2016 11:00 am to August 21, 2016 07:00 pm
Address: 8th and F Streets, Washington, District Of Columbia 20004 , United States
Phone:202-633-1000
Contact:Archives of American Art
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Finding-Source-Material-in-the-Archives-of-American-Art-6098
Prince's "Yellow Cloud" Electric Guitar - Washington, District Of Columbia
April 26, 2016 – September 5, 2016 - The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History recognizes the life and legacy of Prince Rogers Nelson (1958 – 2016) by displaying his “Yellow Cloud” electric guitar. The guitar was made in 1989 and used during Prince’s Diamonds and Pearls era. “Prince was a multi-talented artist who achieved popular succes...
Dates:April 26, 2016 10:00 am to September 05, 2016 05:00 pm
Address: 12th and Constitution Ave., Washington, District Of Columbia 20001, United States
Phone: (202) 633-1000
Contact:American History Museum
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Prince%27s-Yellow-Cloud-Electric-Guitar-6100
LINN MEYERS: OUR VIEW FROM HERE - Washington, District Of Columbia
May 12, 2016–May 14, 2017 - The site-specific wall drawing, which stretches the entire circumference of the inner-circle galleries on the museum’s second level, more than 400 linear feet. The drawing is temporary and will be painted over at the end of the exhibition’s yearlong run. Meyers creates her works by hand-drawing thousands of closely spaced, rippling lines, each n...
Dates:May 12, 2016 10:00 am to May 14, 2017 05:00 pm
Address: 700 Independence Ave., Washington, District Of Columbia 20560, United States
Phone: 202-633-4674
Contact:Hirshhorn Museum
Website:https://www.yundle.com/directory/detail/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-garden
Linn Meyers: Our View from Here - Washington, District Of Columbia
May 12, 2016 – May 14, 2017 - The exhibition is a site-specific wall drawing, which occupies the entire circumference of the inner ring galleries covers nearly 400 linear feet. The drawing is temporary and will be painted over at the end of the exhibition’s yearlong run.
Dates:May 12, 2016 10:00 am to May 14, 2017 05:00 pm
Address:700 Independence Ave. , Washington, District Of Columbia 20560 , United States
Phone:(202) 633-4674
Contact:Hirshhorn Museum
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Linn-Meyers-Our-View-from-Here-5994
Lincoln's Contemporaries - Washington, District Of Columbia
May 13, 2016 – May 12, 2019 - This exhibition features Mathew Brady’s portraits of twenty celebrities from showman P.T. Barnum and inventor Samuel Morse to musician Teresa Carreño and clergyman Henry Ward Beecher who reflect the diversity of American intellectual and cultural life during Lincoln’s presidency.
Dates:May 13, 2016 10:00 am to May 12, 2019 05:00 pm
Address:8th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20004 , Washington, District Of Columbia 20004 , United States
Phone:(202) 633-1000
Contact:Art museum & National Portrait Gallery
Website:http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Lincoln%27s-Contemporaries-5993
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