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Hirshhorn Museum Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Collects, promotes and displays modern and contemporary art from around the world
 
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Treasures
Masterpieces from the African Art collection and special loans from private collections throughout the United States
Modern and Contemporary Sculpture and Installations
A Concrete Vision: Oshogbo Art in the 1960s
Selected works by eleven early Oshogbo artists
American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art
A sampling of American art at the close of the 20th century
Chaim Gross: A Celebration
Lyrical, rhythmic forms in many media created by American sculptor Chaim Gross (1904-1991)
Encounters with the Contemporary
Selection of modern art from the African Art Museum Collection
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Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics
This playful interactive explores Japanese ceramics and Noguchi's life and visits to Japan
Playful Performers
See how children in Africa learn through playful inventiveness and creativity
Sokari Douglas Camp: Church Ede, A Tribute to Her Father
A look at the life and work of this Nigerian artist
Textures - Words & Symbol in Contemporary African Art
The interplay of word, image and space creates visual poetry in these contemporary installations
Transatlantic Dialogue: In and Out of Africa
Explores the varied ways that African and African American artists interpret their ideas and identities
Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing
Language-based installations from a renowned Chinese artist
Neoclassical Sculpture
Cleopatra Lost and Found
The life and work of Edmonia Lewis, a nineteenth-century African American sculptor
Sculpture Traditions and Cultures
A Spiral of History: A Carved Tusk from the Loango Coast Congo
Scenes on a carved tusk convey the essence of Kongo life and beliefs
Caravan Kingdoms Caravan Kingdoms
Explores how ancient Yemen grew fabulously wealthy because of the caravan trade routes of frankincense and myrrh
Explore the African Art Museum Collection
Embraces the diverse artistic expressions found throughout Africa
Gallery Guide: The Arts of Buddhism
Examples from the holdings of Buddhist art in the Freer and Sackler galleries
Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure
World's finest examples of Himalayan art and sacred objects at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Identity of the Sacred: Two Nigerian Shrine Figures
The meaning of identity in two societies of southeastern Nigeria
Images of Power and Identity
The visual arts of Africa south of the Sahara
In the Presence of Spirits: African Art from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon
Highlights from the African art collection of the Museu Nacional de Etnologia
New Acquisitions: Gifts from the Lawrence Gussman Collection
Central African art
Olowe of Ise: A Yoruba Sculptor to Kings
Focuses on a Yoruba sculptor whose fame extended far beyond his hometown
Preserving Ancient Statues from Jordan Preserving Ancient Statues from Jordan
The oldest human-form statues ever found in the Near East
Santos: Hispanic-American Religious Iconography Santos: Hispanic-American Religious Iconography
Painted wood carvings of saints
The Ancient West African City of Benin, A.D. 1300-1897
Works from the 16th and 19th centuries revealing the rituals and regalia of the king and his courtiers
You Be the Conservator: Looking at Objects Inside and Out
An activity to see how museum professionals study and preserve wooden santos from Puerto Rico and New Mexico
Museums
African Art Museum
Collection, study and exhibition of African art
American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
Permanent collection and exhibitions of American art and crafts
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Asian and a specialized collection of American art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Collects, promotes and displays modern and contemporary art
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