June 16 - October 10, 2016 - This exhibition explores the fascinating world of coin-operated entertainment from the early twentieth century. See fortune-tellers and strength testers from penny arcades and gambling machines and musical instruments from Prohibition-era speakeasies.

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June 16 - June 19, 2016 - Inspired by select artworks in the permanent collection, the Museum’s galleries will display floral arrangements created by members of the Garden Club and National Council Accredited Judges from The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut. The Front Desk will carry a self-guided tour that will walk visitors through the Museum-wide exhibition and give insight into the ...

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June 16 - September 24, 2016 - The exhibition proposes the idea of how the medium of printmaking, for all its mechanical and physical methodologies, innately and naturally lends itself to express expansive and interior visions. The print has always attracted a certain kind of artist who is drawn to the macro/micro world of the plate or block, and especially the process. This group of fifty artists...

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June 16, 2016 - September 19, 2016 -  The exhibiton features highlights from the Neue Galerie’s superb holdings of Austrian fine and decorative arts from the first half of the twentieth century. The current installation incorporates a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts. The display of decorative arts includes work by figures such as Josef Hoffman...

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June 16th–November 28th, 2016 - 50 Portraits & Film Projection.

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June 17 - September 5, 2016 - In a celebration of Shakespeare during the quadricentennial of his death, artist Scott McKowen reveals an impressive array of highly detailed pencil sketches, original scratchboard engravings, and finished “colorized” works in an exhibition of Shakespeare theatre posters designed for venues in both the U.S. and Canada.  Discover how McKowen conceptual...

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June 17, 2016 – June 4, 2017 ​- This exhibition will showcase fourteen daguerreotypes—two portraits each—of seven subjects.  By featuring two portraits of each famous sitter, the exhibition will encourage visitors to consider the ways in which various daguerreotypists approached the same subject and how different the results could be. In addition to discussing the early hi...

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June 17, 2016 - October 2, 2016 - This exhibition brings together 50 paintings and drawings from the museum’s permanent collection. Toward the end of her life, Romaine Brooks made several generous donations of her paintings and drawings to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Because she was independently wealthy and did not depend on her art for income, some of her most important paint...

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June 17 - September 11, 2016 - The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip is the first exhibition and book to explore the story of the American photographic road trip & one of the most distinct, important and appealing themes of the medium. Images document the evolution of American car culture, the idea of the open road and how photographers embraced America. Among the 19 photograph...

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June 17 - November 6, 2016 - A major exhibition consists of seven large outdoor sculptures, including some shown for the first time in the United States, plus indoor installations that include a stainless steel curtain through which visitors can walk. Some of the artist’s lesser-known works on paper, 22 drawings and 10 etchings covering a wide chronology, also are part of the exhibition...

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