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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The museum is also preparing to reopen its redesigned sculpture garden, featuring new works from eight artists, this fall.
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Goya’s frescoes are given new life in a church in Spain that also serves as the final resting place for most of the artist’s body. The mystery of his missing skull has inspired poems and artworks.
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A new production of the all-Spanish opera “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” takes the stage in New York City this week, while a partner exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art explores the art behind the opera.
Cake artist Jill Nguyen made sure to stop and smell the flours during her recent visit to our National Museum of Natural History.
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An art historian recently spotted the 16th-century artwork in a rare photograph of Hitler’s old apartment that was printed in a 1978 furniture catalog.
Join cake artist Jill Nguyen behind the scenes as she gets inspired for her next cake.
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An oil painting by Joshua Reynolds features a named naval officer and a Black child whose life story was unknown until researchers searched through captains’ logs, letters and admiralty records.
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In conjunction with the exhibition Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne, Christopher Payne and Pulitzer Prize-winning design critic and author Alexandra Lange discuss Payne’s photography of factories.