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Complete List of New & Upcoming Smithsonian Exhibitions

AFRICAN ART MUSEUM

Artful Animals
July 1, 2009 - February 21, 2010 (new closing date)
Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Highlights (new title)
May 18, 2009 - Indefinitely

AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM

Alan Bean: Painting Apollo, First Artist on Another World
July 16, 2009 - January 13, 2010
From Earth to the Universe
July 6, 2009 - July 27, 2009
Universal Dimensions: The Space Art of Wang Ming
April 9, 2009 - October 9, 2009
Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
April 24, 2008 - Indefinitely

AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM UDVAR-HAZY CENTER

Case: Japanese American Pioneers of the Jet Age
May 2007 - TBA

AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
June 19, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Thomas Moran Landscapes and George Catlin Indian Portraits
May 8, 2009 - New Permanent
1934: A New Deal for Artists
February 27, 2009 - January 3, 2010
The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball
March 8, 2008 - January 18, 2010

AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM

Archives Center Cases: Scurlock
August 3, 2009 - November 29, 2009 (opening date tentative)
Earl Shaffer and the Appalachian Trail
July 10, 2009 - October 11, 2009
Stories on Money
June 11, 2009 - Indefinitely
Archives Center Cases: Stonewall: Fortieth Anniversary
May 30, 2009 - August 2, 2009
On the Water: Stories from Maritime America
May 22, 2009 - New Permanent
First Ladies at the Smithsonian
December 19, 2008 - New Permanent
The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise
January 30, 2009 - February 28, 2010
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
January 16, 2009 - Jan. 2011 (TBA)
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
November 21, 2008 - New Permanent
Artifact Walls: Constitution Ave. Entrance Corridor
November 21, 2008 - New Permanent
Artifact Walls: Mall Entrance Corridor
November 21, 2008 - New Permanent
Invention at Play
November 21, 2008 - TBA
Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration
November 21, 2008 - January 3, 2010
Popular Culture Gallery (new title)
November 21, 2008 - New Permanent
Invention Case: Sporting Invention
January 7, 2009 - TBA
Lemelson Center Case: Jerome Lemelson: Toying with Invention
November 21, 2008 - TBA

AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM

Student Art Exhibition: Tradition Is My Life, Education Is My Future
Upcoming: August 19, 2009 - September 17, 2009 (opening & closing dates tentative)
Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America
June 12, 2009 - September 13, 2009
Cases: Orientation Exhibition
November 13, 2008 - TBA
Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian
November 1, 2008 - August 16, 2009
Outdoor Sculpture: Obelisk
September 11, 2008 - August 16, 2009

AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM HEYE CENTER

Andrea Carlson
June 13, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Annie Pootoogook
June 13, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses
September 26, 2008 - September 13, 2009 (new closing date)
Beauty Surrounds Us
September 23, 2006 - March 31, 2010

ANACOSTIA COMMUNITY MUSEUM

Jubilee: African American Celebration
December 7, 2008 - September 20, 2009
Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in the District of Columbia
November 10, 2008 - Indefinitely

COOPER-HEWITT, NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM

Design for a Living World
May 14, 2009 - January 4, 2010
Fashioning Felt
March 6, 2009 - September 7, 2009
Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection
March 6, 2009 - September 7, 2009

FREER GALLERY OF ART

The Texture of Night: James McNeill Whistler
June 6, 2009 - Through June 2010 (new closing date)
Writing, Carving, and Rubbing: China's Calligraphic Arts
April 4, 2009 - October 26, 2009
Moonlight and Clouds: Silver and Gold in the Arts of Japan
November 8, 2008 - November 8, 2009
Golden Seams: The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics
November 8, 2008 - November 8, 2009
Freer & Whistler: Points of Contact
February 23, 2008 - Indefinitely
Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision
February 23, 2008 - Indefinitely

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM & SCULPTURE GARDEN

Directions -- Walead Beshty: Legibility on Color Backgrounds
April 30, 2009 - September 13, 2009
Black Box: Guido van der Werve
April 20, 2009 - October 11, 2009 Rotating Exhibition
Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
December 11, 2008 - Fall 2009 (new closing date)

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants (new title)
May 30, 2009 - October 10, 2009
Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake
February 7, 2009 - February 6, 2011
Cases: The Art of African Exploration
December 9, 2008 - August 16, 2009
The Sant Ocean Hall
September 27, 2008 - New Permanent
Dig It! The Secrets of Soil
July 19, 2008 - January 3, 2010
Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
February 15, 2008 - New Permanent

PORTRAIT GALLERY

One Life: Thomas Paine, The Radical Founding Father
August 7, 2009 - November 29, 2009
Reflections/Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century
April 10, 2009 - August 16, 2009
Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture
March 27, 2009 - August 2, 2009
Presidents in Waiting
January 20, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
November 26, 2008 - September 27, 2009

POSTAL MUSEUM

Delivering Hope: FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression
June 9, 2009 - June 6, 2010
Art of the Stamp: Lincoln's Bicentennial
February 12, 2009 - October 26, 2009
Abraham Lincoln Certified Plate Proofs
November 15, 2008 - October 2010
Alphabetilately: An Alphabet of Philately
September 26, 2008 - October 29, 2010
Victory Mail
March 6, 2008 - March 10, 2010
Amelia Earhart's Personal Collection
November 12, 2007 - Indefinitely
Postal Inspectors: The Silent Service
February 7, 2007 - February 28, 2010

RENWICK GALLERY

Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009
August 7, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Grand Salon Installation: Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
June 6, 2009 - New Permanent

RIPLEY CENTER (INTERNATIONAL GALLERY)

The Welsh Table
June 22, 2009 - September 21, 2009
Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
May 18, 2009 - November 1, 2009

SACKLER GALLERY

Moving Perspectives: Shahzia Sikander/Xun
July 18, 2009 - November 18, 2009
The Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in The Moscow Kremlin
May 9, 2009 - September 13, 2009
The Tale of Shuten Doji
March 21, 2009 - September 20, 2009
Perspectives: S-Curve by Anish Kapoor
November 22, 2008 - January 3, 2010 (new closing date)
Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
April 1, 2007 - through 2010

SMITHSONIAN CASTLE

World View: Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest
July 1, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Judges Desk and Chairs from "American Idol"
June 27, 2009 - September 13, 2009
"Pile of Loot" from Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
May 4, 2009 - September 30, 2009
Cases: Scientific Illustrators: Artists in Residence in the Castle
October 30, 2008 - Indefinitely

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