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Two display cases inside a museum gallery with rich blue walls; the case in the foreground holds two Rauschenberg works and the one behind it holds four

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National Air and Space MuseumNational Mall

The Ascent of Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of Flight

Now showingFrom 1 July 2026Free

Thirty works by Robert Rauschenberg on the theme of flight, several never shown before, with loans from the Hirshhorn, SAAM and the National Gallery. A one-year show marking the artist's centennial.

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NASA invited Rauschenberg to watch the Apollo 11 launch, and the lithographs he made from it hang by a Combine with a taxidermied eagle. Thirty works on flight, several never shown before, in an aerospace museum, not an art one.

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Installation view of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Installation view of Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen at the Hirshhorn Museum

Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Entrance to Light Is a Plastic Medium at the Hirshhorn: a wall-size photograph of Carlotta Corpron at work beside green title walls

Light Is a Plastic Medium: The Photography of Carlotta Corpron

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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

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The cylindrical concrete exterior of the Hirshhorn Museum, raised on four piers, on the National Mall in Washington, DC

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

DesignFree3 min walk

The curved Kasota limestone exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, DC

National Museum of the American Indian

ArtFree3 min walk

The neoclassical West Building of the National Gallery of Art on the National Mall, Washington, DC

National Gallery of Art

ArtFree4 min walk

The neoclassical National Archives Building with its Corinthian colonnade, seen from Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC

National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree7 min walk

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The Ascent of Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of FlightNational Air and Space Museum
Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Adam Pendleton: Love, QueenPeio Erroteta / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Light Is a Plastic Medium: The Photography of Carlotta CorpronCourtesy of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
National Air and Space Museumajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenGryffindor, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
National Museum of the American IndianCarol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
National Gallery of Artajay_suresh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
National Archives MuseumDavid Samuel (Hellodavey1902) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

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