While tickets to Yayoi Kusama aren’t getting any easier to come by, Washington has more than enough art to fill your calendar next month.

Frédéric Bazille, Portraits of the *** Family, called The Family Gathering, 1867. © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt

Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism @ NGA

Frédéric Bazille packed a lot into his brief lifetime. A friend of Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Édouard Manet, he made some of his finest paintings when he was only 23. He died in combat during the Franco-Prussian War, after taking command from a fallen officer at the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande. He was only 28. Next month the National Gallery of Art presents works by this relatively unknown figure in the birth of impressionism, alongside paintings by contemporaries Monet and Renoir.

April 9—July 9 at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building.

Boom Box Bruce (detail), 2012; Fab 5 Freddy (Courtesy of the Sackler)

Kung Fu Wild Style @ The Sackler

In collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Sackler presents a month-long program exploring the relationship between African-American and East Asian art, music, and film. The exhibition includes work by street artist and hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy and Hong Kong graffiti and hip-hop pioneer MC Yan, who chart the influence of ’70s martial arts films on American hip-hop culture and follow the spark of hip-hop that influenced Hong Kong street kids in the ’90s.

April 1-30 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave SW.

(Dupont Underground)

The Wind That Blows Is All That Anybody Knows @ Dupont Underground

After the wildly successful Raise/Raze showcased the visual spectacle of a former trolley space, Dupont Underground’s next art installation focuses on its enormous sound. Artist Eric Dickson with a background in theoretical physics and political science, specializes in site-specific sound installations. His latest work addresses the current political climate and the history of the the mid-century cavern. Read more about it here.

April 7-May 12 at Dupont Underground, 1500 19th Street NW. $15. Get tickets here.

(Courtesy of Nate Lewis, from our 2016 profile of the artist)

Nate Lewis: Tensions in Tapestries @ Morton Fine Art

When Nate Lewis was in training to become a nurse, making art may have been the last thing on his mind, But as he took up drawing, his experience working at hospitals translated to fascinating, multilayered work that has been shown in galleries from Brooklyn to San Francisco. See Lewis’ latest exhibition next month, and read our 2016 profile of the artist.

April 7-April 26 at Morton Fine Art, 1781 Florida Ave NW

Detail, Moon at Shinagawa; Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806); Japan, Edo period, ca. 1788; (Freer Gallery of Art)

Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered @ Sackler

After the 2014 discovery of a long-lost painting, three works by 18th century Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro were reunited for the first time in 140 years. The Sackler will be the only venue to showcase all three pieces of this massive work documenting the pleasure districts of Edo (now Tokyo). “Contextualizing them within collecting and connoisseurship at the turn of the twentieth century, the exhibition explores the many questions surrounding the paintings and Utamaro himself.”

April 8-July 9 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave SW.

John / Vincent Valdez (born 1977) / Oil on canvas, 2010-2012 / Collection of the artist, © Vincent Valdez (National Portrait Gallery)

The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now @ National Portrait Gallery

Focusing on United States engagement in wars after the 9/11 attacks, this exhibit looks at conflicts that are, in the words of the curators, “ongoing, yet somehow out of sight, invisible.” Works on display includes photographs by Ashley Gilbertson, Tim Hetherington, Louie Palu, and Stacy Pearsall; site-specific installation of drawings by Emily Prince; and paintings, sculpture, and time-based media by Vincent Valdez. Stay tuned for a preview of the show next month,

April 7, 2017-January 28, 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F Streets NW.

Frida Larios, Maya Alphabet of Modern Times, 2017 (AU)

Maya Alphabet of Modern Times @ American University

El Salvador native Frida Larios taps the Mayan mythic narrative for this series of more than 100 typographic works. With its images transferred to books and artwork as well as jewels and toys, “these new artifacts carry through the Pre-Columbian heritage to a contemporary audience of every age, thus intending that the Mesoamerican script is preserved to see a new generation” (and perhaps offering an indictment of the commodification of ancient traditions).

April 1 – May 28 at the AU Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, 440 Massachusetts Ave NW

(Capital Fringe)

CTRL Space COMMAND @ Capital Fringe

An ambitious multimedia exhibition that takes place over four nights in April, this “is an immersive series of conceptual performance pieces dissecting mankind’s intrinsic connection to Space, Time, & The Creator, exploring human interaction through themes of Tribe, Rituals, Abstraction, Architecture and Language utilizing sound, video and movement.” Stay tuned for a preview next week.

April 6, 13, 20 and 27 at Logan Fringe Arts Space, 1358 Florida Ave NW. $10/night, $37 for a four-night pass. Buy tickets here.