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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: Photographs from Hollywood's Golden Age by George Hurrell (A Sequel)

Now showing13 February 2026 – 10 January 2027·Free

An encore hang of 20 vintage prints by MGM's in-house glamour portraitist — Garbo, Harlow, Crawford, Gable and Dietrich, lit to look immortal.

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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

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

ArtFree1 min walk

National Building Museum

Architecture5 min walk

National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree7 min walk

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Design7 min walk

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