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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.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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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.
National Museum of African Art
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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.
National Portrait Gallery
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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.
National Portrait Gallery
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State Fairs: Growing American Craft is the first exhibition dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs with more than 240 artworks on view, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
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Renwick Gallery
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Capilla de Maíz (Maize Chapel), a site-specific installation by Justin Favela, transforms the Rubenstein Grand Salon at SAAM’s Renwick Gallery into a fantastical world, with shimmering gold-fringed walls and piñata corncobs that highlight the . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Renwick Gallery
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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.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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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.
National Museum of Asian Art
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