November 20, 2015 – July 10, 2016 - This exhibition showcases Sinatra’s contributions to America’s songbook and film history through photographic portraits by Herman Leonard and archival photos from Director George Sidney’ s collection, sheet music, album covers, and posters. The key artifacts illustrating Sinatra’s career include the trench coat worn by him in t...

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December 1, 2015 - November 21, 2016 - The display will include a rotating selection of Giving Pledge letters and a kiosk to make all of the letters on loan to the Smithsonian available to visitors. By the turn of the 20th century, a new generation of wealthy Americans increasingly supported secular as well as religious-based institutions, creating some of the nation’s most important an...

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Foundry Gallery’s member artists represent the best and the brightest established and emerging artists in the Washington, D.C. area. The gallery typically has two dozen members at any given time, showcasing many different media and styles.

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Please join us for this exciting event.  You are sure to enjoy every minute. Meet the artist Night:  Wednesday, December 16,  6 - 8 pm Artists are:  Jeff Chyatte -  Wainright Dawson - Eduardo Gyles - Wendy Plotkin-Mates - Helen Zughaib Saturday  12 noon - 5 pm  and anytime by appointment

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December 9, 2015 – August 22, 2016 - The Tucker car in this exhibition passed through numerous owners and had been repainted and reupholstered. It was seized in 1992 by the U.S. Marshals Service following a narcotics investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and transferred to NMAH the next year.  The Tucker never entered full production, but its design epitomized automotive ...

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December 10, 2015 - March 13, 2017 - This exhibition of original artwork explores the diversity of topics highlighting the cultural heritage of New York City. The exhibition provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the Postmaster General’s Art Collection which the museum has acquired through a long-term agreement with the United States Postal Service. Thirty pieces of original artw...

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December 14, 2015 - October 23, 2016 - This exhibition focuses on events, people and challenges that transformed the city between 1963 and 1975.Change was in the air, some of it unsettling and threatening. Against a national background of Lyndon Johnson’s “great society,” anti-war protests, black power, feminism, and emerging gay rights.

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Elizabeth Peak has long been a part of the Washington scene with many shows at the Jane Haslem Gallery and before that at the legendary Franz Bader Gallery.  Her prints are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, American University, Worchester Art Museum, Yale University, and many other institutions. This survey of Peak’s work consists of images derived f...

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January 16 -May 30, 2016 - This related installation reconstructs how Whistler’s unrealized quest for “the perfection of art” intersected with less-rarified concerns about patronage, payment, and professional reputation.

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January 17, 2016–January 31, 2017 - The exhibition takes visitors through the history of the Hawaiian Nation, from the consolidation of the islands by King Kamehameha I in 1810 and the establishment of a society based on law, literacy, and diplomacy; through the undermining of Hawai`i's independence and its annexation by the United States; to the rise of the Hawaiian rights mov...

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