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# Smithsonian 2024 Spring Art Guide

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Make the Smithsonian your spring art destination. With art from across the nation and around the globe, there is truly something for every art lover! Browse our exhibitions and "heart" your favorites to send yourself a My Visit list with everything you need to plan your visit to our museums in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
  
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-    Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies
			              June  23, 2023 – January  28, 2024												              American Art Museum									
 
-    Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023
			              May  26, 2023 – March  31, 2024												              Renwick Gallery									
 
-    **  Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful
			              May  25, 2023 – June  2, 2024												              American Indian Museum									
 
-    **  From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson
			              April  29, 2023 – January  6, 2025												              African Art Museum									
 
-    John Akomfrah: Purple
			              November  23, 2022 – January  7, 2024												              Hirshhorn									
 
-    Kinship
			              October  28, 2022 – January  7, 2024												              Portrait Gallery									
 
-    **  Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
			              September  10, 2021 – Ongoing												              African American History and Culture Museum									
 
Art and Design Exhibitions-    **  Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints
			              March  23, 2024 – October  6, 2024												              Sackler Gallery									
 
-    **  Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960
			              March  22, 2024 – April  20, 2025												              Hirshhorn									
 
-    **  Artists at Work
			              March  20, 2024 – March  21, 2025												              S. Dillon Ripley Center									
 
-    **  Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection
			              March  16, 2024 – September  2, 2024												              Cooper Hewitt									
 
-    **  Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980
			              March  16, 2024 – September  15, 2024												              Freer Gallery of Art									
 
-    **  Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice
			              March  8, 2024 – September  8, 2024												              American Art Museum									
 
-    **  Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork
			              March  2, 2024 – early 2026												              Sackler Gallery									
 
-    **  Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell
			              March  1, 2024 – January  5, 2025												              Portrait Gallery									
 
-    **  Commissioned Portrait of Oprah Winfrey
			              December  13, 2023 – October  20, 2024												              Portrait Gallery									
 
-    **  Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea
			              December  9, 2023 – 2026												              Freer Gallery of Art									
 
-    **  Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass
			              December  8, 2023 – December  6, 2026												              American Art Museum									
 
-    **  Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass
			              December  8, 2023 – December  6, 2026												              Portrait Gallery									
 
-    **  Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change
			              November  18, 2023 – May  4, 2024												              Freer Gallery of Art									
 
-    **  Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America
			              November  18, 2023 – Fall 2024												              African Art Museum									
 
-    **  An Atlas of Es Devlin
			              November  18, 2023 – August  11, 2024												              Cooper Hewitt									
 
-    **  Recent Acquisitions, 2023
			              November  3, 2023 – October  27, 2024												              Portrait Gallery									
 
-    **  Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism
			              October  20, 2023 – September  2, 2024												              Portrait Gallery									
 
-    **  Park Chan-kyong: Gathering
			              October  7, 2023 – October  13, 2024												              Sackler Gallery									
 
-    **  Galleries for Modern and Contemporary Art
			              September  22, 2023 – Ongoing												              American Art Museum									
 
-    **  Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back
			              September  22, 2023 – July  7, 2024												              American Art Museum									
 
-    **  Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas
			              September  15, 2023 – June  2, 2024												              American Art Museum									
 
-    **  Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life
			              July  14, 2023 – June  2, 2024												              Hirshhorn									
 
-    **  Duty, Honor, Country: Antebellum Portraits of West Pointers
			              June  23, 2023 – June  9, 2024												              Portrait Gallery									
 
-    **  One Life: Frederick Douglass
			              June  16, 2023 – April  21, 2024												              Portrait Gallery									
 
-    **  Staff Picks: Our Favorite Things from the Collection
			              June  1, 2023 – September  21, 2025												              Archives of American Art									
 
-    **  Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful
			              May  25, 2023 – June  2, 2024												              American Indian Museum									
 
-    **  Connecting Stories at the National Museum of Asian Art
			              April  29, 2023 – Ongoing												              Sackler Gallery									
 
-    **  From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson
			              April  29, 2023 – January  6, 2025												              African Art Museum									
 
-    **  Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
			              April  19, 2023 – Ongoing												              Renwick Gallery									
 
-    **  The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas
			              March  25, 2023 – Ongoing												              Sackler Gallery									
 
Art Podcast Episodes       Sidedoor Podcast  Monsoon Mood         We think of paintings as art, but they can also help us understand today's changing climate.         Sidedoor Podcast  Love in the Time of Emoji         Learn how one groundbreaking *emoji* is changing digital representation and the future of museum collections.         Sidedoor Podcast  Dynamo Dot         Liebes spun luxury fabrics so bold and colorful that their style could only be described as the "Liebes Look."         Sidedoor Podcast  The Artist Critics Love to Hate         His paintings, sketches, and prints papered the second half of the 20th century, highlighting American icons in his colorful expressionist style.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Monumental Imagination of Augusta Savage         This Harlem Renaissance sculptor has been called one of the most influential artists of the 21st century.         Sidedoor Podcast  Chiura Obata's Glorious Struggle         Learn from Chiura Obata about the power of art in tumultuous times.         Sidedoor Podcast  This Color Is Who I Am*Sidedoor*takes a look at America's early HIV/AIDS crisis through the eyes of an artist whose life and work were changed by it forever.          Sidedoor Podcast  Til Death Do Us Part?         Listen to some of Japanese theater’s most popular tales of scorned lovers seeking vengeance from beyond the grave.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Woman in the Frame         National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet discusses four First Ladies and their portraits.         Sidedoor Podcast  Painting Michelle Obama         Journey to Amy Sherald's studio to hear exactly how she captured the spirit of Michelle Obama in paint on canvas.  
View more art and design episodes »
Spring in the Collections-  Spring (no. 248) 
-  Spring 
-  *Spring Scrolls* 
-  Spring Dance 
-  Spring 
-  Early Spring in Bidwell Park 
-  *Spring--Delightful Flower Bed* 
-  Postcard of Japanese Cherry Blossoms on Riverside Drive 
-  Spring in Mount Atago, from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo 東京十二題 春の愛宕山 
-  Spring Fever 
-  Spring 
-  Blossoms 
-  Blossoming Trees 
-  A Holi festival 
-  Field of Blossoms 
-  Spring is Here 
-  Dance of Spring 
-  Valley Spring 
-  Dawn of Spring 
-  The Birth of Spring 
-  Stream, Early Spring 
-  Spring (Springtime) 
-  California Spring Landscape 
-  Pasture Lands: Early Spring 
-  Spring Dance I 
-  Twilight: Early Spring 
-  Spring (Marchbanks poster) 
-  Big Tree -- Early Spring 
-  Early Spring in New England 
-  Spring Storm-Water Works I 
-  Spring Again 
-  Spring Field 
-  Spring Dream 
-  City in Spring 
-  Spring in the Valley 
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