Check out this great article about the Anne Truitt show in the Washington Post:>link goes here
The first major exhibition of Truitt’s work since 1974, "Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection" is a survey of two- and three-dimensional works made during the artist’s 40-year career. A variety o...
Richard Koshalek has been named director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, effective April 13. Koshalek, 67, was president of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, C...
Ori Gersht (b. 1967, Tel Aviv) currently lives and works in London. He is noted for his series of large-scale photographs and arresting moving-image pieces. The artist’s work encourages viewers to ...
An important strength of the Hirshhorn Museum is its holdings in figurative art. "Strange Bodies" brings together some of the most praised and popular examples of figuration from the collection to ...
Terence Gower’s project "Public Spirit" grew out of his research into the history of the museum during his 2007 artist fellowship with the Smithsonian. The exhibition tells the story of the origina...
Terence Gower’s project “Public Spirit: The Hirshhorn Project” grew out of his research into the history of the museum during his 2007 artist fellowship with the Smithsonian. The exhibition tells t...
"The Panza Collection" highlights an exceptional selection of 39 Conceptual, Light and Space and Environmental works that the Hirshhorn recently acquired from Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, whose c...
At the heart of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is its collection. The more than 12,000 objects that now comprise its holdings are largely the result of the generosity of the Museum's fou...
As part of its mission to collect important works by the artists of our time, the Hirshhorn has recently acquired numerous works in diverse media by a range of international artists. Among the rece...
Curators Anne Ellegood and Evelyn Hankins have recently reinstalled a number of collection galleries on the third level of the Museum. In the lobby, several important paintings from the 1960s by Fr...
Artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt, aka Semiconductor, have collaborated since 1999 on various forms of “digital noise and computer anarchy,” including films, experimental DVDs, and multimedia...
Dear friends, This summer promises to be an especially eventful one for the Hirshhorn, and I wanted to share with you some of the highlights from our upcoming exhibitions, events, and initiatives....
The second part of the Hirshhorn’s exploration of contemporary moving-image art, "Realisms," looks at a decade of film, video and digital works that investigate how cinema—now encompassing such rel...
In Kimsooja's "A Laundry Woman, Yamuna River, Delhi, 2000," the artist acts as a visual and spiritual mediator through which viewers are invited to contemplate the flow of the river--a metaphor for...
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