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Wendy Red Star artwork: a historic black-and-white portrait of an Apsáalooke chief overlaid with the artist's handwritten red annotations

National Portrait GalleryPenn Quarter / Chinatown

Wendy Red Star: Whispering Spirit

Upcoming9 April 2027 – 30 January 2028Free

All-new work across seven galleries by Apsáalooke (Crow) artist Wendy Red Star, whose portraiture reworks archival images of Native leaders.

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

Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Nick Cave: Mammoth

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Ted Wathen, Former Company Houses, Jenkins, Letcher County, Kentucky, 1975, gelatin silver print

Much Here Is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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The Greek Revival portico and columned facade of the Old Patent Office Building, home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC

Smithsonian American Art Museum

ArtFree1 min walk
Exterior of the National Building Museum, the 1887 Pension Building, in Washington, DC

National Building Museum

Architecture5 min walk
The neoclassical National Archives Building with its Corinthian colonnade, seen from Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC

National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree7 min walk
Exterior of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a Renaissance Revival former Masonic Temple on the corner of New York Avenue and 13th Street NW in Washington, DC

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Design7 min walk

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