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Black-and-white George Hurrell portrait of Joan Crawford, chin lifted, in dramatic studio lighting

National Portrait Gallery · Penn Quarter / Chinatown

Star Power: Fotografien aus Hollywoods Goldenem Zeitalter von George Hurrell (Eine Fortsetzung) (Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood's Golden Age by George Hurrell (A Sequel))

Now showing13 February 2026 – 10 January 2027·Free

Eine erneute Präsentation von 20 Vintage-Abzügen des legendären MGM-Glamour-Porträtisten – Garbo, Harlow, Crawford, Gable und Dietrich, meisterhaft ausgeleuchtet für die Unsterblichkeit.

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Still from Shahzia Sikander's digital animation The Last Post (2010)

Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Installation view of Nick Cave: Mammoth at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Nick Cave: Mammoth

Smithsonian American Art Museum

US Coast Guard photograph of a worker at Ground Zero following the September 11, 2001 attacks

Gedenken an den 11. September (Remembering 9/11)

National Archives Museum

All exhibitions in Washington, DC this month Coming up in October

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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National Building Museum

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National Archives Museum

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National Museum of Women in the Arts

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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Courtesy of the museum)