Exhibitions in Washington, DC
October 2024
October 2024 at a glance: 0 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 6 more were on view across the city.
Was on view in October
Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960to 1 NovHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenFree
A century of upheaval across the second-floor outer ring: hundreds of works by Bacon, Dubuffet, Krasner, Lawrence, O'Keeffe and Pollock, rotated periodically and threaded with contemporary responses.
Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism and Popular Cultureto 31 Mar 2027National Museum of African American History and CultureFree
Black religious life seen through Johnson Publishing Company photographs from Ebony and Jet, where the holy and the profane meet in music, protest and pop culture.
Portrait of Lloyd Pattersonto 31 Mar 2027Hillwood 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 2028National 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 2028National Museum of the American IndianFree
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.
- Do Ho Suh: Public Figuresto 29 Apr 2029
National Museum of Asian ArtFree
On the Freer plaza facing the National Mall, a monumental empty plinth held aloft by hundreds of small striding figures, questioning who monuments are for.
Image credits
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- Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
- Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism and Popular CultureCourtesy of National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Portrait of Lloyd PattersonHillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
- Remix: The Collection© Estate of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith; Courtesy of the Estate of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
- Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian NationsCourtesy of National Museum of the American Indian
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