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

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Penn Quarter

Nick Cave: Mammoth

Now showing13 February 2026 – 3 January 2027·Free

Nick Cave verwandelt die Galerieräume in eine Ausgrabungsstätte: kunstvoll gearbeitete Mammuthäute und -knochen, eine Videoarbeit, die die Urzeitriesen zum Leben erweckt, sowie Hunderte gefundener Objekte, die wie wissenschaftliche Präparate arrangiert sind.

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© Nick Cave; photo by Ron Blunt Studio, courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum (Courtesy of the museum)