Exhibitions in Washington, DC

December 2023

December 2023 at a glance: 0 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 3 more were on view across the city.

Painted portrait of Lloyd Walton Patterson, on long-term loan to Hillwood

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Indian, Indio, Indigenous (1992): a horizontal canvas combining collaged map scraps, comic strips, cloth swatches and dripped paint with scrawled phrases.

Treaty documents and Native diplomatic objects displayed in Nation to Nation

Was on view in December

Portrait of Lloyd Pattersonto 31 Mar
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
A long-term loan portrait of Lloyd Walton Patterson, who travelled to Soviet Russia in 1932 for the film Black and White and stayed, opening up the history of Black Americans in the USSR.
Remix: The Collectionto 16 Jan
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The museum-wide collection installation, rejecting chronology for themes like Photo Credit, Seeing Red and Objectified across six continents and six centuries of women artists.
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nationsto 17 Jan
National Museum of the American Indian · Free
Original treaties on loan from the National Archives, wampum belts and peace medals tell the story of US–Native diplomacy from the colonial era to the present.

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