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Installation view of Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2025

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Renwick GalleryLafayette Square

Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe

Upcoming26 February 2027 – 2 January 2028Free

Mid-career survey of Saya Woolfalk's Empathics, part-plant, part-human beings, told through immersive installations, sculptural garments, glass and video projections.

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National Museum of Women in the Arts

A detail shot of a black-and-white image of a person's face printed on plexiglas that has been shattered in the center.

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National Museum of Women in the Arts

A circular, rust-colored sculpture and three rust-colored columns in the median of a city street.

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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

Design10 min walk

Exterior of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its three-tiered bronze-coloured filigree corona seen from the National Mall

National Museum of African American History and Culture

ArtFree13 min walk

Aerial view of the National Museum of American History on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

National Museum of American History

HistoryFree14 min walk

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

ArtFree16 min walk

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Saya Woolfalk: Empathic UniverseInstallation view: Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2025. Photo by Jenna Bascom; courtesy the Museum of Arts and Design
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in CaliforniaBequest of the Eli Leon Living Trust, BAMPFA; Courtesy of Sherry Ann Byrd; Photo by Kevin Candland
Marlo Pascual: Making Something Out of SomethingImage courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York
Beverly Pepper: Land Art and Monumental SculpturesPhoto courtesy of DowntownDC BID
Renwick GalleryIngfbruno / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
National Museum of Women in the Artsajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
National Museum of African American History and CultureFuzheado, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
National Museum of American HistoryCarol M. Highsmith / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Smithsonian American Art MuseumFrogvixen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

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