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 18 - September 18, 2016 - The exhibition revisits Appel’s early interest in children’s art, his stylistic experiments, and his highly personal and sometimes almost abstract interpretation of traditional subjects like the nude, the portrait, and the urban or rural landscape. A Gesture of Color is a part of an international reappraisal of Appel’s work, which includes exhibitio...

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June 24, 2016 – May 21, 2017 - This exhibition examines Babe Ruth as a baseball legend and the marketing frenzy his name and image fueled before the commercialization of sports superstars became routine.  Related themes focus on star power in an age before electronic mass media and the use of portraiture in advertising. The exhibition will include approximately forty objects, from prin...

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July 1, 2016 - November 30, 2016 - The exhibition describes how in the mid-19th century, the world suddenly became smaller when an underwater telegraph cable joined two nations divided by the sea, Ireland and Newfoundland, Canada. Using Archives Center collection materials, this display commemorates American businessman and financier Cyrus Field’s accomplishment in laying the first succ...

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July 2, 2016 – July 9, 2017 - On view for a year in the natural light-flooded Sackler pavilion, the exhibition will seem to shift with the seasons, complementing Joo’s interest in materials, perception, and the nature of change. This work is part of our ongoing Perspectives series of contemporary installations.

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July 9, 2016 – June 4, 2017 - In this exhibition, he juxtaposes two monumental porcelain sculptures, which he terms stupas, with export wares from China’s Kangxi period. Those blue-and-white ceramics are similar to those that once filled the shelves of Whistler’s Peacock Room in London. These historical porcelains also inspired McConnell to create a new work based on 3D-printed r...

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Join us for an exciting experience with friends and family. Fun filled days of educational activities, superb salesroom, themed meal events and sightseeing opportunities. Members of the United Federation of Doll Clubs are united by our appreciation of dolls of all types. The objectives of the non-profit organization are to create, stimulate and maintain a national and international interest ...

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August 5, 2016 - June 7, 2017 - How has D.C. transformed in the past 10 years? In this year’s exhibition, local teens used photography, writing, and interviews to trace how neighborhoods along the Anacostia River have changed. They researched the city’s past at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. and talked to residents, developers, and government officials t...

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August 5, 2016 - February 20, 2017 - Enthralled by the music and those who made it, Herman Leonard  began haunting the New York’s jazz clubs after opening his first studio in Greenwich Village in 1948. Armed with his Speed Graphic camera, Leonard made images that captured the very essence of a live jazz performance. Soon, his photographs were gracing album covers and appearing in the pa...

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August 14 - September 19, 2016 -  For more than 25 years, The Phillips Collection has held a staff show to feature the works of artists employed at the museum. In 1984, the staff show was endowed by the family of James McLaughlin, an accomplished still-life painter who worked at the museum for 50 years.  

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