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Left, Janice Lowry, Journal 93, July 12December 3, 2001. Janice Lowry Papers, 1957-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian. Cover, Sidewall, All Around the Town, detail, 195055. Manufactured by Wilton E. Owen, Inc. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, gift of Wilton E. Owen, Inc.

THE SMITHSONIAN IN NEW YORKThe Smithsonian, an unrivaled American museum and research complex, has a strong presence in New York and the tri-state metropolitan area through the Archives of American Art; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; and the National Museum of the American IndianGeorge Gustav Heye Center.

Archives of American Art aaa.si.edu

Founded in 1954, the Archives of American Art fosters advanced research through the accumulation and dissemination of primary sources, unequaled in historical depth and breadth. These sources document more than 200 years of the nations artists and art communities.

The Archives provides access to its unparalleled collection through its exhibitions and publications, including the Archives of American Art Journal, the longest-running scholarly journal in the field of American art.

An international leader in the digitizing of archival collections, the Archives has made more than 2 million digital images available online. The Archives oral history collection includes more than 2,200 audio interviews, the largest accumulation of in-depth, first-person accounts of the American art world.

The Archives also is a vital resource for students and scholars of American culture. Millions of documents are available in its research centers in Washington, D.C., and New York, in person and online, for free. They serve as the primary reference for countless dissertations, exhibitions, catalogs, articles and books on American art and artists.

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Visitors are invited to relax on benches designed by National Design Award winner Yves Bhar, experience Heatherwick Studios Spun Chairs, and play on an outdoor Ping-Pong table.

By the People: Designing a Better America opens September 30, 2016 and runs until February 26, 2017. The third in the museums series of exhibitions devoted to humanitarian design, it examines how design is challenging social and economic inequality across the country.

Cooper Hewitt provides educa tional programming for students of all ages. The Design in the Classroom program introduces design thinking and creative problem-solving to students in underserved New York City schools and has been piloted in six other cities around the country.

Additionally, the museum offers a masters program in the history of design and curatorial studies with The New Schools Parsons School of Design. The Smithsonian Design Library, open daily, includes 90,000 books, periodicals, catalogs and trade literature dating back to the 15th century.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museumcooperhewitt.org

With a focus on educating, inspiring and empowering through design, Cooper Hewitt is the only museum in the country devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. After a transformative renovation of the landmark Carnegie Mansion, Cooper Hewitt has more gallery space to display its collection of more than 210,000 objects. Visitors can create their own design solutions usingthe museums groundbreaking technologies and interactive installations.

The museums Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden, originally designed as a private garden for the Carnegie family, has been reimagined as a dynamic public space by Hood Design Studio, in collaboration with RAFT Landscape Architecture and Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

Below, Modern Vase, 2003, designed by Roy McMakin, gift of Agnes Bourne; Triad Chair, 2006, designed by Wendell Castle, gift of Wendell Castle, courtesy of Barry Friedman, Ltd. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Visitors can explore wallpaper in the Immersion Room or relax in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden, above left.

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The National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center nmai.si.edu

The National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center explores the diversity of the Native peoples of the Americas through exhibitions, music and dance performances, education programs, films and symposia.

The museum has one of the most extensive collections of Native American art and objects in the world. It represents more than 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. Situated in lower Manhattan, the museum is housed in the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House and attracts more than 500,000 visitors annually.

From left to right: Maya portrait head, AD 300900, Uxmal, Mexico, collected by Thomas Gann, presented by James B. Ford; Nahua mask, ca. 1950, Guerrero State, Mexico, gift of Richard H. White; Casas Grandes effigy jar, AD 12001450, Paquim, Chihuahua, Mexico, collected by Edward Ledwidge, presented by Harmon W. Hendricks; Margaret Roach Wheeler (Chickasaw) for Mahota Handwovens, The Messenger (The Owl), detail, from the Mahotan Collection, 2014, courtesy of the designer. PHOTO BY GREG HALL

The permanent exhibition Infinity of Nations and Cermica de los Ancestros: Central Americas Past Revealed, a bilingual exhibition curated in collaboration with the Smithsonian Latino Center, are on view. Cermica chronicles the vibrant ancestral heritage of early civilizations of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. It runs through December 2017.

Opening in February 2017, the museum will present Native Fashion Now, an exhibition originally organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., featuring nearly 100 works spanning the last 50 years.

It explores the vitality of Native fashion designers and artists from pioneering Native style-makers to maverick designers making their mark in todays world of fashion. Native Fashion Now underscores Native concepts of dress and beauty, which are inextricably bound to identity and tradition in a rapidly changing world.

NEW YORK IN THE SMITHSONIANNational Museum of African American History and Culture nmaahc.si.edu

Many contributions by New Yorkers can be found in the Smithsonians newest museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts has a growing collection of important photographers and filmmakers, documenting the African American experience. The Eyejammie Hip-Hop Collection portrays hip-hops early innovators, including Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Black Sheep and Queen Latifah. Compiled by pioneering music historian Bill Adler, this collection first was exhibited in New York at his Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery in 2000.

The center also has work by fashion, documentary and fine art photographers such as Jamel Shabazz, Builder Levy and Anthony Barboza.

Ann Lowe was a fashion powerhouse in New York. Dean of American Designers, she created one-of-kind couture for leading society families. She designed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedys wedding dress, which was featured in The New York Times in 1953. The Black Fashion Museum, founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane, donated several of her dresses to the museum.

Top, left clockwise: Hip-hop duo Black Sheep in Brooklyn overlooking the World Trade Towers by Al Pereira, 1992, National Museum of African American History and Culture Al Pereira. Babe Ruth by William Auerbach-Levy, c. 1929, National Portrait Gallery. Sarah Vaughan by Herman Leonard, 1949, National Portrait Gallery Herman Leonard Photography, LLC. Carl Van Vechten, Lena Horne, from the unrealized portfolio Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After, 1941, printed 1983, Smithsonian American Art Museum, transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts Van Vechten Trust and Eakins Press Foundation. Isamu Noguchi by Russell Lynes, 1968, Archives of American Art. Belief+Doubt, by Barbara Kruger, 2012, Barbara Kruger

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National Portrait Gallerynpg.si.edu

In the Groove: Jazz Portraits by Herman Leonard, features jazz legends Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk and Sarah Vaughan. Enthralled by the music and those who made it, Leonard was a regular at the New Yorks jazz clubs, capturing the essence of a live jazz performance with his Speed Graphic camera. Runs through February 20, 2017.

From 1914 to 1948, Babe Ruth was the most portrayed American, both in and out of his New York Yankees uniform. One Life: Babe Ruth shows the sports figure as a baseball legend and marketing frenzy fueled by his name. Runs through May 21, 2017.

Smithsonian American Art Museumamericanart.si.edu

As the Harlem Renaissance was transforming American culture in the 20th century, Carol Van Vechten was documenting many of the central figuresJames Baldwin, Ossie Davis, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ella Fitzgerald and Langston Hughes. Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten depicts artists on the cusp of their successes and others looking back on their long, varied careers. On view through March 19, 2017.

Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern explores how Noguchis innovative vision for the future

was shaped by the ancient world. The artist found inspiration in Egyptian pyramids, Buddhist temples, Zen gardens, and American Indian burial mounds. The exhibition brings together 70 works, many from the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City. On view through March 19, 2017.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden hirshhorn.si.edu

Belief + Doubt = Sanity by New York artist Barbara Kruger is currently on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Famous for her incisive photomontages, Kruger synthesizes a critique about soc