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Art for everyone The holiday season brings out-of-town visitors. In a city full of museums, there’s something for every taste.
Baltimore Museum of Art
After a nearly two-year renovation, the Baltimore Museum of Art 's Contemporary Wing opens on Nov. 18. Among the works on view in the newly reinstalled galleries are several photographs and videos by Oliver Herring: "Area of Action Portfolio."
Baltimore Museum of Art
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American University Museum
Located far from the National Mall, The American University Museum is worth the trip. Its current crop of exhibitions includes work by Matthew Kenyon, a young artist whose politically charged piece "Supermajor" creates a kind of motor-oil fountain.
Matthew Kenyon
Newseum
Photojournalist Andrea Bruce captured a Bahraini protester usng onions and garlic to battle the effects of tear gas. Bruce's image is part of the exhibition "The Eyes of History 2012 : White House News Photographers Association."
Andrea Bruce
American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum is a fun outing for the whole family. The museum's current exhibition "The Art of Storytelling" features work (such as "Fairy Tree House" by Debbie and Mike Schramer) that relies heavily on narrative and the imagination.
Dan Myers
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Best known as a sculptor, artist Ai Weiwei is the subject of a retrospective at the Hirshhorn. The show also includes nearly 8,000 photographs by the versatile Chinese artist, whose practice incorporates tweeting and other forms of social media as art-making.
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National Air and Space Museum
With a gaggle of fidgety kids in tow, you could do a lot worse than a visit to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum . Planes, space ships, simulator rides and an IMAX theater offer hours of diversion.
Rick Sammon
Art Museum of the Americas
"The Ripple Effect : Currents of Socially Engaged Art" isn't your typical art show. The survey of public-practice-based contemporary art includes "Write Home Soon," an interactive wall of anonymous photographs on the subject of literal and figurative displacement.
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National Museum of Health and Medicine
A trichobezoar (also known as a human hairball) is among the medical oddities on view at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring.
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Kreeger Museum
Artist Dan Steinhilber's "Marlin Underground " is an ingenious audio installation that uses the sounds made by ordinary household objects to create a musical composition consisting of "found” sound.
Dan Steinhilber
National Gallery of Art, East Building
The once subversive pop art movement, as exemplified by the art of Roy Lichtenstein , looks downright upright in the National Gallery's richly rewarding retrospective of the painter's long career.
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National Gallery of Art, West Building
The exquisitely crafted object, as seen in this detail of a table's ball-and-claw foot, is the focus of a new permanent exhibition of early-American furniture . The decorative arts are paired with American paintings from the museum's collection.
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Corcoran Gallery of Art
Taryn Simon 's work is part photography and part anthropology. The artist's fascinating and ambitious project "Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII" uses the documentation of family bloodlines to explore ideas about religion and culture.
Taryn Simon
National Gallery of Art, West Building
Contemporary photographer Nikki S. Lee shoots herself, in various guises, as a way of exploring the idea of assimiliation and group identity. Her self-portrait is featured in "The Serial Portrait : Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years."
Nikki S. Lee/Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Renwick Gallery
The Renwick Gallery is the Smithsonian's museum dedicated to American fine craft. But its current exhibition "40 under 40 " looks more like a contemporary art show than a craft show. Stephanie Liner's "Momentos of a Doomed Construct," which grapples with issues of sexual objectification, is part dress, part upholstered furniture.
Courtesy of Stephanie Liner/Photo by John Michael Kohler Art Center
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