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Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art of Noise celebrates groundbreaking design that enhances and visualizes our musical experiences. From concert posters to record albums, phonographs to digital music players, handheld .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art explores how LGBTQ+ artists from Africa and its diaspora are part of a larger, joyful story of African art history. Artists’ voices are central to this exhibition, which features works by Zanele Muholi, .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is proud to present the winners and finalists of the 2025 Teen Portrait Competition! Matilda Myers of Maryland and Kate Stermer of California have been announced as winners of the 2025 Teen Portrait .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

The Outwin 2025 features 35 portraits (by 36 artists) from the museum’s seventh triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The juried selection draws from more than 3,300 entries, and includes artist contributions from 14 states, .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

At the dawn of time, the Hindu god Vishnu slept on a coiled serpent floating in the primordial ocean. There, he dreamed the universe into existence. This magnificent story of creation comes to life through the largest bronze ever cast in .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Basquiat × Banksy is an exhibition of two major paintings, one by Jean-Michel Basquiat (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1960–1988), the other by Banksy (anonymous; b. near Bristol, England). Placed in dialogue, Basquiat’s Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump (.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.