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Aug. 12, 2009

Upcoming Exhibitions

Thru Oct. 25 - Green Community
The exhibition spotlights sustainable communities in the U.S. and around the world, from neighborhoods to major cities. The display also illustrates how and why we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings, along with ways to build healthy, eco-friendly communities for generations to come. www.nbm.org

Thru Jan. 3, 2010 - Presidents in Waiting
The National Portrait Gallery highlights American vice presidents who succeeded to the presidency and proved themselves to be capable political figures with the experience and aptitude to be president. www.npg.si.edu

Thru – Jan. 3, 2010 - Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager
This exhibition features large-format black and white photographs selected from Philip Trager's forty-year career. The National Building Museum exhibition brings together his extraordinary depictions of architecture, from Italian Renaissance villas to views of Paris and New York City streetscapes, with his later explorations of dance and the body. www.nbm.org

Thru – Jan. 3, 2010 - Recent Acquisitions
The Textile Museum will celebrate its rich collection and share with the public a selection of 19 of the most artistically and culturally compelling objects it has acquired within the last five years. www.textilemuseum.org

Thru – Jan. 10, 2010 - Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
the second in a series of special installations, this exhibit celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper. Rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection by artists such as Stuart Davis, Sam Francis, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Stella, Grant Wood, and Andrew Wyeth will be featured in the exhibition. www.americanart.si.edu

Thru July 29, 2010 - Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century
Sparked by the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, the exhibition at the Museum of Natural History features archaeological discoveries and addresses life and death in the colonies, activity and physical labor, health and disease and stories of the peoples affected by North American colonization. www.mnh.si.edu

Thru – Oct. 11, 2010 – Earl Shaffer and the Appalachian Trail
Earl Shaffer was the first person to walk the entire Appalachian Trail in one continuous hike. Shaffer had no expert advice, no previous footsteps to follow, or even guidebooks to help him. This exhibition at the National Museum of American History features photographs taken along the trail, diaries from the 1948 hike and later ones, letters from hikers asking for advice, and papers relating to Shaffer's activism in numerous environmental and hiking groups. www.americanhistory.si.edu

Fall 2009 - TBA - Moving Beyond Earth
Moving Beyond Earth is an immersive exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum that places visitors “in orbit” in the shuttle and space-station era to explore recent human spaceflight. An expansive view of the Earth as viewed from the space station drifts over one gallery wall, while a fly-around tour of the International Space Station fills another wall. Museum-goers can also experience aspects of spaceflight through interactive computer kiosks. www.nasm.si.edu

Aug. 7 – Nov. 29 - One Life: Thomas Paine, The Radical Founding Father
This exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is devoted to Thomas Paine, whose pamphlet "Common Sense" fired up Americans to get on with a declaration of independence and whose exhortation, "These are the times that try men's souls," General Washington read to his dispirited troops. Featured in the exhibition will be the museum's recently acquired portrait of Paine depicted by the French artist Laurant Dabos around 1792. www.npg.si.edu

Aug. 7 – Jan. 3, 2010 - Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009
The fourth in a biennial exhibition series that honors the creativity and talent of craft artists working today, this exhibition at the Renwick Gallery will feature the work of ceramic artist Christyl Boger, fiber artist Mark Newport, glass artist Mary Van Cline and ceramic artist SunKoo Yuh. www.americanart.si.edu

Sep. 12 – Jan. 3, 2010 - Sargent and the Sea
In Sargent and the Sea, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together for the first time more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter of the late 19th century. www.corcoran.org

Sep. 12 – July 18, 2010 – Since Darwin: The Evolution of Evolution
This exhibition at the Museum of Natural History focuses on the significant role that Darwin’s theories have played in explaining and unifying all the biological sciences.  Specimens from the Museum’s diverse collections, along with documentation from our ongoing research, illustrate the importance of evolution as a scientific foundation, and how our knowledge of evolution has evolved over the last 150 years. www.mnh.si.edu

Sep. 20 – Feb. 28, 2010 – In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes
Drawn from the gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition at the National Gallery of Art chronicles the major technological developments in photographic processes from the origins of the medium until the advent of digital photography. www.nga.gov

Sep. 25 – Jan. 24, 2010 - Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924
The American West was dramatically reconstituted during the 80 years between the Mexican War and the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924. This exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery tells the story of these changes through 100 portrait photographs. Visitors will encounter those who explored, fought over, developed and represented this vast territory, such as Geronimo, John Fremont, Annie Oakley and Brigham Young. www.npg.si.edu

Oct. 1 - May, 2 2010 - The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works
Through their remarkable acuity, exhaustive study, and close relationships with the artists, the Meyerhoffs amassed one of the most outstanding collections of modern art with an emphasis on six American masters: Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella, in addition to important works by leading abstract expressionists and younger artists. The National Gallery of Art will display the collection of some 126 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints. www.nga.gov

Oct. 2 – Jan. 24, 2010 - What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect
The first full-scale look at Wiley's career since 1979, this exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum will feature approximately 80 works from the late 1960s to the present, borrowed from public and private collections as well as from the artist. www.americanart.si.edu

Oct. 3- Dec 13 – Edward Burtynsky: Oil
This touring exhibition surveys a decade of photographic imagery exploring the subject of oil by artist Edward Burtynsky. The Canadian photographer has traveled internationally to chronicle the production, distribution, and use of this critical fuel. www.corcoran.org

Oct. 3 – Feb. 27, 2010 – Wedgewood: Celebrating 250 Years of Innovation and Artistry
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of Wedgewood, this exhibition at the DAR Museum will showcase nearly 200 select items illustrating the company’s unique history and manufacturing. Display ojects for the exhibition are being drawn from North American private, museum and celebrity collectors such as Martha Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg. www.dar.org

Oct. 3 – Dec. 30, 2009 – Kentridge and Kudryashov: Against the Grain
The Kreeger Museum is set to display the works of two of the world’s most significant printmakers. One of them, William Kentridge, was born in South Africa to an affluent anti-apartheid family, and is poignant works are often expressions of a brutalized society left in the wake of an oppressive political regime. They will be on display alongside the work of another renowned printmaker – Oleg Kudryashov. The exhibition will consist of 40 or 50 works by Washington-area collectors. www.kreegermuseum.org

Oct. 8 – Jan. 3, 2010 - Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection
This exhibition at the Hirshhorn is a survey of two- and three-dimensional works made during the artist’s 40-year career. Acting as a painter as well as a sculptor, Truitt wrapped color around the corners of these sculptures, creating visually poetic relationships between structure and surface. www.hirshhorn.si.edu

Oct. 10 – Jan. 10, 2010 - Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens
Man Ray translated the 20th-century modernist taste for African art into photographs that reached a popular audience. About 60 of his photographs, many never before exhibited, will appear side-by-side with 20 of the African objects featured in the images at The Phillips Collection. www.phillipscollection.org

Oct. 11 - April 4, 2010 - Editions with Additions: Jasper Jons' Working Proofs
This National Gallery of Art exhibition will include approximately 45 proofs for lithographs, etchings, and screenprints that the artist expanded in a range of media, including pastel, ink, and paint. The show will be installed in two galleries, the first featuring prints from the 1960s and 1970s, the second introducing complex compositions from the 1980s and 1990s. www.nga.gov

Oct. 17 – April 11, 2010 - Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Japanese designers Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto shocked the fashion world by introducing avant-garde styles that challenged received Western notions of “chic.” Their designs, on display at the Textile Museum, effectively overthrew existing norms and set the stage for the postmodernist movement in the fashion industry. www.textilemuseum.org

Oct. 17 – July 1, 2010 – House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage
This exhibit at the National Building Museum explores the unique relationship between parked cars and the built environment and encourages visitors to see these familiar structures in a whole new way. www.nbm.org

Oct. 20 - May 30, 2010 - Sèvres Then and Now: Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750–2000
This  exhibition at Hillwood Museum and Gardens will be the first retrospective on Sèvres in the United States and Hillwood's first major exhibition to include international loans. Showcasing this famous French porcelain factory, the exhibition includes more than fifty ceramics spanning three centuries, many of which are normally inaccessible to the public or have never been exhibited. www.hillwoodmuseum.org

Oct. 24 – Jan. 24, 2010 - Falnama: The Book of Omens
This is the first exhibition ever devoted to these extraordinary manuscripts, which remain largely unpublished, and sheds new light on their artistic, cultural, and religious significance. Falnama: The Book of Omens, on display at the Freer Gallery, comprises some sixty works of art from international public and private collections and is accompanied by a multi-authored, fully illustrated catalogue. www.asia.si.edu

Nov. 5 – March 28, 2010 – Directions: John Gerrard
Irish artist John Gerrard uses customized 3-D gaming software to re-imagine landscape art. Inspired by the look, history and politics of the Dust Bowl region, he creates contemplative, vivid scenes of farms and oil fields. For the works in this exhibition, Gerrard photographed actual sites from 360 degrees and then simulated cinematic movement around the sites using the computer, complete with shifting, natural lighting effects. www.hirshhorn.si.edu 

Nov. 6 - July 5, 2010 - Portraiture Now: Communities
Painters Rose Frantzen, Jim Torok and Rebecca Westscott explore the contemporary definition of "community" through a series of related portraits of friends, townspeople, or families in this exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.si.edu

Nov. 8 – July 4, 2010 – The African Presence in Mexico
This traveling exhibition at the Anacostia Community Museum focuses on the overlooked history of African contributions to Mexican culture from 1519 to the present day. Highlights of the exhibition include “casta” paintings (paintings used to delineate racial categories and the ever-increasing complexity of racial mixture); discussions of African slavery in Mexico and the hero/slave rebel Yanga; and artifacts related to the traditions and popular culture of the Afro-Mexicans. www.anacostia.si.edu

Nov. 10 – March 7, 2010 - Yinka Shonibare MBE
Yinka Shonibare MBE, a mid-career exhibition of the Nigerian-born artist, combines a wide range of media including paintings, sculpture and installation, photography and moving images. The works encompass the last 12 years of Shonibare’s career with a focus on recent works juxtaposed with historical works. www.africa.si.edu

Nov. 10 - May 23, 2010 – IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas 
This 20-panel banner exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian focuses on the interactions between African American and Native American people, especially those of blended heritage. It also sheds light on the dynamics of race, community, culture, and creativity and addresses the human desires of being and belonging. With compelling text and powerful graphics, IndiVisible includes accounts of cultural integration and diffusion as well as the struggle to define and preserve identity. www.nmai.si.edu

Nov.13 – Feb. 15, 2010 – Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings
This exhibition at the National Museum of American History features ledger drawings, a style of visual history, developed by Native warriors from the Northern and Southern Plains in the late 19th century. This exhibit will feature drawings, from ledger books, by some of the combatants in wars for sovereignty over the Plains, some of them made while their Native makers were imprisoned for their actions in those struggles. www.americanhistory.si.edu

Nov. 19, 2009 – March 31, 2010 - Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor
The burial complex of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi features thousands of terra cotta warriors meant to protect him in the afterlife. These pieces, and many others, will be on display at the National Geographic museum as the exhibit travels the U.S. www.nationalgeographic.com/musem

Jan.8 – Aug. 22, 2010 – One Life: Echoes of Elvis
To this day, both the historical Elvis Presley and the fantasy-based vision of Elvis are the subject of poetry, literature, music, film and the visual arts by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Ralph Wolfe Cowan and Red Grooms. Opening on the 75th anniversary of Elvis’ birth, this exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, features many of these legendary works. www.npg.si.edu 

Jan. 29 – Aug. 8, 2010 – Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The third in a series of special installations, this exhibit celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paperthrough exceptional watercolors, pastels, and drawings. Rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection by artists such as Robert Arneson, Jennifer Bartlett, Philip Guston, Luis Jiménez and Wayne Thiebaud are featured in the exhibition. www.americanart.si.edu

Jan. 30 - April 25, 2010 - Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales
Turner to Cézanne presents an outstanding group of paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including masterpieces by Cézanne, Corot, Daumier, Manet, Millet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Turner, and Van Gogh. Featuring nearly 60 works, many of which have rarely been exhibited outside of Wales, the exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art will explore some of the key stylistic innovations that shaped the art of the 19th and early 20th centuries. www.corcoran.org

Jan. 31 - July 31, 2010 - From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
When Chester Dale bequeathed his remarkable collection of paintings to the National Gallery of Art in 1962, it became one of the most important repositories in North America of French art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This installation will allow visitors to discover the rich array of Dale's bequest to the Gallery in the format of a special exhibition. www.nga.gov

Feb. 6 – May 9, 2010 – Georgia O’Keefe: Abstraction
This exhibition at The Phillips Collection will feature over 70 paintings, drawings, and watercolors by O'Keeffe as well as a selection of close-up photographic portraits of O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz.  It will focus exclusively on the origins and range of the artist's abstractions over the course of her career, as she developed an abstract vocabulary unlike that of any of her contemporaries. www.phillipscollection.org

Feb. 12 – May 9 – Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840–1882) was a photographer for two of the most ambitious geographical surveys of the nineteenth century. He traversed the mountain and desert regions of the western United States between 1867 and 1874 and then brought his photographs back to DC. More than 80 of his works will be on display during this exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. www.americanart.si.edu

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