Art & Design

Explore Art & Design across the Smithsonian through stories, events, and exhibitions. Use the filters to browse by format, then bookmark events and exhibitions to keep track of what you want to visit or attend.

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Open Studio: Play with Clay
Location
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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Free
“What Fools These Mortals Be”: A Closer Look at Shakespeare’s Comedies
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Lacquer design of two golden cranes flying over golden trees on the coast of a black ocean.
Gold powder falls gently onto wet lacquer, shimmering. There, it transforms into plants, birds, and even scenes from stories. This Japanese art form is called maki-e (literally, “sprinkled picture”). Artists have used this method since the . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Location
National Museum of Asian Art
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Lifelong Learners: Printed Perspectives
Location
Anacostia Community Museum
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Free
Tangled wire sculpture forming an abstract, hollow shape with looping curves, suspended against a plain white background.
Location
American Art Museum
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Free
Michelangelo's Painted World
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A branch casts a shadow over a table with two pieces of paper and a pencil, the papers show the tracing of the cast shadow, in the background, a brown wall with white text that reads EXHIBITION EXIT
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National Museum of the American Indian
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Free