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CrossLines: A Culture Lab on Intersectionality
CrossLines offers a new vision of a museum for the 21st century. Here, contemporary artists and scholars actively explore intersections in today's web of American identity. They tell stories that reflect our distinct history of migration, wars, civil rights struggles and personal journeys. They layer concepts such as race, religion, gender and sexuality to show the complexity of the American experience today.
As you walk through the exhibit, notice not only what you see, but what might be missing. What elements of your own experience would you add to make this cultural laboratory more complete? CrossLines is only the beginning of a larger conversation. Where will it take us?
Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building:
This building opened in 1881 as the US National Museum. Featuring the Smithsonian's growing collections, it sought through the promotion of reflection and discourse to define a grand vision of America.
Fresh from a decade of renovation, the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building reopens this year with similar aspirations, but to a very different America. |