Exhibitions
Artist Lia Halloran spent 13 years creating over 500 paintings for the book The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves,…
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During the summer of 2020—amid the pandemic, lockdowns, and widespread displays of racially motivated violence that appeared on screens across the United States—artist Imo Nse Imeh was deeply engaged with…
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This exhibition features Miami-based artist Xavier Cortada’s climate change-focused artwork from Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the North and South Pole, spanning 2007 to the present. Cortada initiated The Underwater, a…
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“We call it the building for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, but in reality, it should be the nation’s home of science in America and…
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Women are underrepresented in most STEMM fields despite being half of the population and performing as well as men in math and science. Women with multiple marginalized identities (women of…
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Julia Pollack is curator and creator at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign where she creates artwork based upon her conversations…
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This year holds special significance for the NAS, as our beautiful building at 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, turns 100 years old. Dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge in April 1924 and…
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