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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Every quilt and textile has its own personality—which one best represents yours?
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Oh, shell yeah! Both a sculpture and a book, “The Mollusk” is inspired by artist Amy Richard’s research into Florida’s natural environment, poetry, and art history.
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Created by John Collins, the 46-foot-long granite artwork inspired by an 18th-century political cartoon is slated to be unveiled on Independence Mall sometime this fall.
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Measuring less than an inch long, the figurines were buried beneath Germany’s Hohle Fels Cave, where some of the world’s oldest known figurative artworks have been found.
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The 118-track collection is the most complete set ever compiled of recordings by American blues icon Ma Rainey.
In “Mammoth,” Nick Cave creates an immersive environment marked by the crafted hides and bones of mammoths, a video projection of the long-dead animals come to life, and hundreds of transformed found objects.
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Delight in the details! Meet the artists behind Curious Regard, the moo-velous butter cow sculpture currently on display in a custom refrigerated case at SAAM’s Renwick Gallery.
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Chase F. Robinson, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, visits with William Colburn, Director of the Freer House and shares his impression of the Freer House in Detroit, Michigan, the "prototype" for NMA