District of Columbia
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART
202-639-1700
“30 Americans” now-Feb. 12, 2012: A total of 76 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and videos. “Gordon Parks: Photographs From the Collection” now-Jan. 16, 2012: Showcases Parks’ photographic essays about social issues.
FLASHPOINT
202-315-1305
“Aoife Collins: Tickling the Ivories” Jan. 6-Feb. 4, 2012: Deconstructions and reconstructions of cultural objects such as plastic potted plants and artificial flowers.
HEINER CONTEMPORARY
202-338-0072
“In Line/Out Of Line: Chip Allen, Katherine Sable & Camilo Sanin” now-Jan. 14, 2012: Contemporary abstraction.
THE KREEGER MUSEUM
202-337-3050
“Sculpture on the Grounds: 2011 Invitational With Martha Jackson-Jarvis and Dalya Luttwak” now-July 2013.
NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM
202-272-2448
“Lego Architecture: Towering Ambition” now-Sept. 3, 2012: Fifteen buildings from around the world made entirely of Lego bricks by Adam Reed Tucker. “Unbuilt Washington” now-May 28, 2012: The Washington that could have been: urban design projects that were proposed but never built.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
202-737-4215
“Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes” now-April 8, 2012. “Picasso’s Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition” Jan. 29-May 6, 2012: An exhibition of 50 works examining the artist’s style experiments and techniques in a 30-year period.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
202-633-1000
“A Song for the Horse Nation” now-Jan. 7, 2013: Among the 112 items are a life-size horse mannequin in spectacular, fully beaded regalia, and the rifles of Geronimo and Chief Joseph. “IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas” now-Feb. 2, 2012: The exhibition is accompanied by a 160-page publication and 10-minute media piece.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
800-222-7270
“Trove: The Collection in Depth” now-Jan. 15, 2012: More than 100 works in various mediums from the collection.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION
202-387-2151
“Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint” now-Jan, 8, 2012. “Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard” Feb. 4-May 6, 2012: Two hundred photographs, 40 paintings and 60 works on paper by artists influenced by the invention of the handheld camera.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM AND THE RENWICK GALLERY
202-633-1000
“The Great American Hall of Wonders” now-Jan. 8, 2012: Features more than 160 objects, including paintings and drawings by pre-eminent artists. “Multiplicity” now-March 11, 2012: A total of 83 works from the museum’s permanent collection. “Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage” Jan. 20-May 20, 2012: Photographs of landscapes, historic homes and objects taken by the noted photographer not because they were assigned, but because they moved her.
SMITHSONIAN’S FREER GALLERY OF ART
202-633-1000
“The Peacock Room Comes to America” now-spring 2013: The first special exhibition in the room since its conservation in 1993. “Seasons: Chinese Flowers” now-Jan. 8, 2012: View paintings of Chinese flowers native to each season. “Seasons: Japanese Screens” now-Jan. 22, 2012: Two rotations highlight screens painted to represent various times of year.
SMITHSONIAN’S HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
202-633-4674
“Andy Warhol: Shadows” now-Jan. 15, 2012: A total of 102 silk-screened and hand-painted canvases. “Directions: Empire3” now-Feb. 26, 2012: Works of the iconic building by Andy Warhol, Douglas Gordon and Wolfgang Staele.
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
202-633-8300
”The Black List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders” now-April 22, 2012: Fifty photographs of prominent African Americans. “150th Commemoration of the Civil War: The Death of Ellsworth” now-March 18, 2012. “One Life: Ronald Reagan” now-May 28, 2012.
THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
202-667-0441
“Second Lives: The Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles” now-Jan. 8, 2012: Presents examples of repurposed textiles from around the world. “Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa” now-Feb. 19, 2012: More than 50 exceptional 19th- and early 20th-century objects will be on view. “Dragons, Nagas and Creatures of the Deep” Feb. 3, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013: A global collection of textiles depicting dragons and related fantastic creatures.
ZENITH GALLERY
202-783-2963
“Shining Stars: Sculpture & Mixed Media Exhibition” now-Jan. 7, 2012: Works by Julie Girardini, David Hubbard, Joan Konkel, Barton Rubenstein, Paul Martin Wolff.
