Exhibitions

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LeBron James in profile
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Men of Change: LeBron James

LeBron James

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Walter Iooss, © Walter Iooss

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Father and young son on beach with backs to the camera
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Men of Change: Father and Son

Untitled photograph of father and son at Lake Michigan, 1946-1948. Photo by Wayne F. Miller.

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © Magnum Photo

 

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Two men holding March on Washington sign
Library of Congress
Men of Change: March on Washington

Bayard Rustin (on left), one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a key organizer of the March on Washington, with Cleveland Robinson.

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Photo of Wilson with arms crossed
David Cooper
Men of Change: August Wilson

August Wilson

Photo by David Cooper

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Portrait of Ryan Coogler
Courtesy artist Alfred Conteh and Galerie Myrtis
Home Team

Home Team - original artwork of Hollywood director Ryan Coogler by Alfred Conteh

Home Team/Courtesy artist Alfred Conteh and Galerie Myrtis

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African American Men at formal dinner
National Museum of American History
Men of Change: Lincoln Douglass Dinner

The Mu-So-Lit Club’s Lincoln-Douglass Dinner, 1940

Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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LeBron James
New Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Profiles Revolutionary African American Men
06.10.2019
Traveling Exhibition Service Exhibitions
Leah Chase

“Cutting Squash (Leah Chase)” by Gustave Blache III, 2010, oil on panel, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist in honor of Mr. Richard C. Colton Jr. Copyright Gustave Blache III

Portrait of Renowned Activist and Chef Leah Chase by Gustave Blache III On View at the National Portrait Gallery
06.03.2019
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
building exterior
“I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa” Opens at the Smithsonian June 20
Exhibition of Multimedia Works of Art by 27 Modernist and Contemporary Artists From 10 African Countries
06.03.2019
African Art Museum Exhibitions

David Levinthal, Untitled from the series Wild West, 1989, instant color print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of an anonymous donor, 2018.3.190, © 1989, David Levinthal

“American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs” Opens June 7 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Exhibition Explores Cultural Mythologizing of Iconic Symbols of American Identity
05.29.2019
American Art Museum Exhibitions
Smokey Bear

The real Smokey Bear in his exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.

Photo: Jessie Cohen/Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Smokey Bear Exhibit Opens at Smithsonian’s National Zoo
Forest Service Celebrates 75 Years of Smokey’s Fire-Prevention Efforts
05.23.2019
National Zoo & SCBI Exhibitions
I.M. Pei

I.M. Pei by Yousuf Karsh, 1979, Gelatin silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh. Copyright Estate of Yousuf Karsh

Photograph of the Late Architect I.M. Pei by Yousuf Karsh On View at the National Portrait Gallery
05.17.2019
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
T-Rex fossil

In its new pose devouring a Triceratops, the Nation’s T. rex will be the centerpiece of “The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time,” a 31,000-square-foot dinosaur and fossil hall opening June 8 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Credit: Smithsonian Institution

National Fossil Hall To Reopen June 8 at the National Museum of Natural History
The Exhibition “Deep Time” Shows How Earth’s Past Informs the Present and Shapes the Future
05.16.2019
Smithsonian Channel Natural History Museum Exhibitions
Freer Gallery north entrance
Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Explores Chapters of Artist James McNeill Whistler’s Life in Two Exhibitions
05.15.2019
Asian Art Museum Exhibitions
marian anderson portrait

Credit: “Marian Anderson” by Beauford Delaney, oil on canvas, 1965. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art; Photo by Travis Fullerton ©Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator

National Portrait Gallery Presents “One Life: Marian Anderson”
Major Exhibition Exploring the Life of the Celebrated Singer Opens June 28
05.15.2019
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
mushroom sculpture

Life Underground exhibit outside of the National Museum of American History
"Mushroom" by Foon Sham
Image courtesy of the Smithsonian

 

Smithsonian Gardens Presents “Habitat”
Inaugural Smithsonian-Wide Exhibition Features 14 Distinct Exhibits
05.14.2019
Smithsonian Gardens Exhibitions
Lucy Stone by an unidentified photographer

Credit: Lucy Stone by an unidentified photographer, half-plate daguerreotype, c. 1855. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery Presents “Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits”
05.01.2019
American Women's History Museum Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
Railroad
Smithsonian Marks 150th Anniversary of Transcontinental Railroad
Displays, Exhibits and Online Resources Begin May 10
04.30.2019
American History Museum Exhibitions
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Credit: “Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Robert Adelman, Gelatin silver print, 1963. National Portrait

Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Robert Adelman Estate

National Portrait Gallery Presents “In Mid-Sentence”
Exhibition Will Explore Speech as Captured in Photography
04.03.2019
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
Caddo Head Pot

Caddo Head Pot, 2005
Jeri Redcorn (Caddo/Potawatomi, b. 1939), Norman, Oklahoma
Pottery, pigments
NMAI purchase from the artist, 2005 (26/5161)

“Ancestral Connections” Links the Past to the Present Through The Work of 10 Contemporary Artists
Exhibition Shows Native Heritage as Context and Inspiration for Art
04.02.2019
American Indian Museum Heye Center Exhibitions
Spanish style train station

Credit: Palm Springs train station, 1939. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Palm Springs Historical Society.

National Museum of the American Indian Presents “Section 14: The Other Palm Springs, California”
The Story of the Agua Caliente Band’s Struggle for Justice and Rights to Their Land in Palm Springs
03.28.2019
American Indian Museum Exhibitions
screenprint

Carlos Irizarry, Moratorium, 1969, screenprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denhausen Endowment, 2013.24.1 A-B

Copyright: 1969 Carlos Irizarry, Photo by Gene Young

“Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Examines How the Vietnam War Changed American Art
03.07.2019
American Art Museum Exhibitions
family in car

Unidentified, Family posed inside a car, ca. 1950.

Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman

Smithsonian Announces ExxonMobil Sponsorship of Traveling Exhibition on “Green Book” History
03.07.2019
Traveling Exhibition Service Exhibitions
Space shuttle Discovery

The space shuttle Discovery is the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.

National Air and Space Museum Featured in Newest Google Arts & Culture Interactive Online Exhibit
03.06.2019
Air and Space Museum Exhibitions

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