April 23 - October 30, 2016 - ​This exhibition describes how ceramics have been an integral part of Chinese culture throughout its history. How they were fashioned, decorated, and used reflected functional needs, cultural practices, and spiritual beliefs. During the Tang Dynasty (618–907) the Chinese often buried their dead with objects representing the things they would need in the afterl...

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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...

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April 26 - October 31, 2016 - The exhibition forms the core of a renewed emphasis and focus on American art and highlights themes of the collection’s strengths, particularly the New England landscape, genre painting, and portraiture. American paintings were the last objects assembled by Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb before she died in 1960.

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April 26 - November 27, 2016 - This installation, drawn from Bowdoin’s collection, brings together paintings dating to the period 1350–1500 and prior influences, including ancient and medieval sculpture. Rivalries between the arts contributed to the transformation of painting into an arena for artistic innovation and originality.

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April 27 - July 17, 2016 - This exhibiton is a series of food paintings in which each item is presented in a centrally focused composition, whether hovering in abstract space, on a plate, or wrapped in foil. The foods include nachos, bagels, slices of bread, s'mores, pasta, and popsicles, among other things.

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April 27, 2016–February 12, 2017 - This exhibition offers new perspectives on one of art’s oldest genres. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s holdings, the more than two hundred works in the exhibition show changing approaches to portraiture from the early 1900s until today. Bringing iconic works together with lesser-known examples and recent acquisitions in a range of mediums, the ...

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April 27–July 17, 2016 - This exhibition focuses primarily on Leaf’s works on paper and spans her entire career. The dense installation is meant to evoke the atmosphere of her studios, in which she works seamlessly in multiple mediums. Indeed, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and collage effortlessly coalesce as the artist creates and develops her imagery ...

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April 28, 2016 - March 1, 2017 - The exhibition features highlights of the Kravis collection dating from the early 20th century to the present. From industrial design and furniture to tableware and textiles, the exhibition makes visual and material connections across time and geography to relate the far-reaching impact of design on the enhancement of daily life.      

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April 28 - October 6, 2016 - By entering the installation space, one is surrounded by laughing figures seated on bleacher-like structures. From this vantage point, it quickly becomes clear that Muñoz is not merely granting the viewer unusual access to the artwork but also shifting the role of the observer to that of an unwitting subject, and potentially even an object of ridicule as the scu...

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April 28, 2016 – March 12, 2017 - Energizing the Everyday celebrates the exceptional gifts from leading collector George R. Kravis II to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. From radios to furniture, the exhibition displays some of the most influential objects in the history of modernism, alongside contextual works drawn from the museum’s collection.

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