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 2022_DC_SIHIR_Window | 92 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China
A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China
November 4, 2022 – January 7, 2024
A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China is the Hirshhorn’s first survey of photography by leading multigenerational Chinese artists made between the 1990s and 2000s. The exhibition... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Trace | 72 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn
Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn
June 28, 2017 – January 1, 2018
Ai Weiwei’s monumental installation Trace portrays individuals from around the world whom the artist and various human rights groups consider to be activists, prisoners of conscience, and advocates of free speech. Each of these 176... |
| 2012_DC_SIHIR_Weiwei | 75 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Al Weiwei: According to What
Ai Weiwei: According to What?
October 7, 2012 to February 24, 2013
Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. Beijing, 1957) is one of China’s most prolific and provocative contemporary artists. He is best known for projects such as his collaboration with architects Herzog & de Meuron on the design of the 2008 Beijing... |
| 2013_DC_SIHIR_Weiwei | 9 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Al Weiwei: According to What |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR_Hub | 42 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection
In celebration of the Museum’s 40th anniversary, the Hirshhorn recently completed the first comprehensive renovation of the Third Level galleries, returning the sweeping, majestic spaces to architect Gordon Bunshaft’s original design.
The first exhibition in the new galleries is At the Hub of Things:... |
| 2012_DC_SIHIR_Belief | 9 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Barbara Kruger: Belief + Doubt |
| 2013_DC_SIHIR_Belief | 7 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Barbara Kruger: Belief + Doubt |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Belief | 28 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Barbara Kruger: Belief + Doubt |
| 2022_DC_SIHIR_Belief | 60 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Barbara Kruger: Belief + Doubt |
| 2018_DC_SIHIR_Brand_New | 128 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s
February 14, 2018 – May 13, 2018
It’s the 80s as you’ve never seen it before. Explore the iconic decade when artwork became a commodity and the artist, a brand. Razor-sharp, witty, satirical and deeply subversive, these nearly 150 works examine the origins and... |
| 2018_DC_SIHIR_Von_Heyl | 48 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes
Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes
November 8, 2018 – January 27, 2019
The largest U.S. museum survey to date of work by painter Charline Von Heyl (b. Mainz, Germany, 1960; active in New York and Marfa, TX). The exhibition explores Von Heyl’s groundbreaking practice since 2005, presenting deeply visceral... |
| 2012_DC_SIHIR_Dark_Matters | 20 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Dark Matters: Selections from the Collection
Dark Matters: Selections from the Collection
February 3, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Dark Matters, a rotating exhibiton, brings together works from the Hirshhorn’s collection that draw upon the associations and implications of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. It evokes notions of mortality,... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIR_David | 68 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Enrico David: Gradations of Slow Release
Enrico David: Gradations of Slow Release
April 16, 2019 – September 2, 2019
Enrico David has distinguished himself as one of the most original artists working today, fashioning a universe of imagery that revolves around the human figure and its many states of being. Co-organized by the Museum of... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIR_Feel | 24 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions
Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions
Aug 24, 2019–February 2020
Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions brings together artworks acquired by the Hirshhorn over the past five years. Highlighting works that encapsulate the current moment, the exhibition is an opportunity to... |
| 2018_DC_SIHIR_Baselitz | 85 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Georg Baselitz: Six Decades
Georg Baselitz: Six Decades
June 21, 2018 – September 16, 2018
Georg Baselitz is the first major US retrospective in more than twenty years of one of Germany’s greatest living artists, marking the artist’s 80th birthday. With more than 100 works highlighting every phase of Baselitz’s six-decade career... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Utopian | 117 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Utopian Projects
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Utopian Projects
September 7, 2017 – March 4, 2018
The exhibition, spanning 1985 through present day, features more than 20 of the Kabakovs’ maquettes, whimsical models, for projects realized and unrealized, including monuments, allegorical narratives, architectural structures... |
| 2023_DC_SIHIR_Holzer | 39 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Jenny Holzer, THE PEOPLE
Jenny Holzer, THE PEOPLE
Sept. 17-21, 7:15-11pm
Jenny Holzer is a celebrated American artist who uses language as her primary medium. In the late 1970s, she created her Truisms, a series of one-line aphorisms such as “Abuse of power comes as no surprise” and “Bad intentions can yield good results.”... |
| 2023_DC_SIHIR_Diamond | 25 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life
Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life
July 14, 2023 – June 2, 2024
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present the largest museum installation to date by American conceptual artist Jessica Diamond. Wheel Of Life will fill the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15... |
| 2022_DC_SIHIR_Purple | 15 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: John Akomfrah: Purple
John Akomfrah: Purple
Nov 23, 2022–January 2024
"John Akomfrah: Purple" introduces the artist’s largest ever video installation, an immersive six-channel work, to Washington D.C. for the first time.
An enveloping, hour-long symphony of image and sound, “Purple” (2017) weaves together original film... |
| 2022_DC_SIHIR_Anderson4 | 45 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Laurie Anderson: Four Talks |
| 2021_DC_SIHIR_Anderson | 90 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Laurie Anderson: The Weather
Laurie Anderson: The Weather
September 24, 2021 – July 31, 2022
Laurie Anderson: The Weather is the largest-ever U.S. exhibition of artwork by celebrated multimedia artist Laurie Anderson. Spanning her groundbreaking video and performance works from the 1970s to recent years, the exhibition guides... |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR_LeOnde | 18 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Le Onde: Waves of Italian Influence
Le Onde: Waves of Italian Influence (1914-1971)
August 22, 2015 – January 3, 2016
This exhibition of nearly 20 works from the museum’s collection follows Italian contributions to the transnational evolution of abstraction, through movements and tendencies such as futurism, spatialism, op art, and... |
| 2016_DC_SIHIR_Meyers | 37 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Linn Meyers: Our View from Here (In Progress)
Linn Meyers: Our View from Here
May 12, 2016 – May 14, 2017
Linn Meyers (American, b. Washington, DC, 1968) creates her largest work to date, Our View from Here, at the Hirshhorn this spring. The site-specific wall drawing, which occupies the entire circumference of the inner ring galleries covers... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIR_Manifesto | 150 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Manifesto: Art x Agency
Manifesto: Art x Agency
June 15, 2019 – January 5, 2020
German artist Julian Rosefeldt’s epic, multi-channel video work Manifesto serves as the centerpiece to a display of works from the Hirshhorn collection highlighting works of art created in response to, or as a part of, artistic manifestos of the... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIR_Duchamp | 136 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection
Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection
November 9, 2019 – October 12, 2020
The first of a two-part exhibition, this part features the recent gift of over 50 major historical artworks, including more than 35 seminal works by Duchamp, promised to the museum by Washington, D.C.,... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Bradford | 34 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge
Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge
November 8, 2017 – November 12, 2018
Internationally renowned artist Mark Bradford (b. 1961) debuts Pickett’s Charge, a monumental new commission inspired by artist Paul Philippoteaux’s nineteenth-century cyclorama in Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania.... |
| 2021_DC_SIHIR_Bradford | 5 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge
Mark Bradford: Pickett's Charge
November 8, 2017 – Reopens August 20, 2021
Internationally renowned artist Mark Bradford (b. 1961) debuts Pickett’s Charge, a monumental new commission inspired by artist Paul Philippoteaux’s nineteenth-century cyclorama in Gettysburg National Military Park,... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Lupertz | 35 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History
Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History
May 24, 2017 – September 10, 2017
The Hirshhorn celebrates the pioneering early works of Markus Lüpertz (b. Liberec, Czech Republic, 1941), one of the most influential contemporary German artists, with an in-depth exploration of his groundbreaking paintings from the... |
| 2016_DC_SIHIR_Masterworks | 93 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection
Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection
June 9, 2016 – August 6, 2016
This new rehanging of the third-level permanent collection galleries, features highlights of Joseph Hirshhorn’s original gift alongside some of the newest additions to the collection. Featuring more than 75 works in virtually all... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Party | 27 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Nicolas Party: sunrise, sunset
Nicolas Party: sunrise, sunset
June 7, 2017 – October 1, 2017
Sunrises and sunsets are among the only moments in the day when we are reminded, as the sun appears and disappears at the edge of the sky, that the universe is vast and its measure of time infinite. Set into this perspective, everything... |
| 2022_DC_SIHIR_Eternity | 120 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection
One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection
April 1, 2022 – November 27, 2022
The Hirshhorn has been collecting the prolific work of Yayoi Kusama since 1996. Our 2017 survey of her work traveled to five North American art museums, introducing Kusama’s spellbinding visions to record... |
| 2016_DC_SIHIR_With_Words | 42 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Painting with Words: Gentleman Artists of the Ming Dynasty
Painting with Words: Gentleman Artists of the Ming Dynasty
April 16, 2016 – July 24, 2016
Poetry, painting, and calligraphy: Known as the “Three Perfections,” these genres were regarded as the ultimate expressions of Chinese literati culture during the Ming dynasty (1369–1644). Members of the Wu... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIR_Steir | 16 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Pat Steir: Color Wheel
Pat Steir: Color Wheel
October 24, 2019 – May 10, 2020
The Hirshhorn hosts the largest site-specific exhibition to date by the acclaimed abstract painter Pat Steir. The exhibition is an expansive new suite of the artist’s signature Waterfall paintings, spanning the entire perimeter of the museum’s... |
| 2022_DC_SIHIR_Revisions | 139 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection
Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection
August 2, 2022 – Fall 2023
Put It This Way is devoted to the work of nearly 50 women and nonbinary artists in the Hirshhorn’s collection. The exhibition brings together almost a century of work in a range of media drawn exclusively from the... |
| 2018_DC_SIHIR_Pulse | 23 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse
November 1, 2018 – April 28, 2019
Three major installations from Lozano-Hemmer’s “Pulse” series and six public-art documentaries come together for the first time in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse, filling the museum’s entire second-floor galleries with evocative, immersive... |
| 2016_DC_SIHIR_Ragnar | 57 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Ragnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson
October 14, 2016 – January 8, 2017
This exhibition is the first comprehensive mid-career survey of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (b. Reykjavik, 1976) and charts his wide-ranging practice across film, performance, painting, and drawing. Kjartansson’s work draws from a varied... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Ragnar | 14 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Ragnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson
October 14, 2016 – January 8, 2017
This exhibition is the first comprehensive mid-career survey of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (b. Reykjavik, 1976) and charts his wide-ranging practice across film, performance, painting, and drawing. Kjartansson’s work draws from a varied... |
| 2024_03_30C1_SIHIR_Revolutions | 372 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960
Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960
March 22, 2024 – April 20, 2025
To inaugurate its 50th-anniversary season, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, a major survey of artwork made during a... (Partially reviewed) |
| 2019_DC_SIHIR_Tiravanija | 289 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Rirkrit Tiravanija: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green (Multiple visits)
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green
May 17, 2019 – July 24, 2019
On view is the newly acquired full-gallery Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green (2010), an installation work of relational aesthetics by Rirkrit Tiravanija that unites the artist’s signature culinary work with... |
| 2016_DC_SIHIR_Irwin | 29 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change
Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change
April 7, 2016 – September 5, 2016
The first museum exhibition to focus exclusively on Irwin’s (American, b. Long Beach, California, 1928) extraordinary trajectory between 1958 and 1970 charts the artist’s remarkable course from the early small abstractions and... |
| 2022_DC_SIHIR_Gilliam | 32 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Sam Gilliam: Full Circle
Sam Gilliam: Full Circle
May 25, 2022 – September 11, 2022
Sam Gilliam: Full Circle pairs a series of circular paintings (or tondos) created in 2021 with “Rail” (1977), a landmark painting in the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection. Gilliam’s first solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn reflects the breadth of... |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR_Shirin | 96 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Shirin Neshat: Facing History
Shirin Neshat: Facing History
May 18, 2015 – September 20, 2015
In her mesmerizing films and photographs, Shirin Neshat (Iranian-American, b. Qazvin, 1957) examines the nuances of power and identity in the Islamic world—particularly in her native country of Iran, where she lived until 1975. Shirin... |
| 2023_DC_SIHIR_Leigh | 64 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Simone Leigh
Simone Leigh
November 3, 2023 – March 3, 2024
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago) who is among the most respected artists of her generation.
The exhibition surveys approximately twenty years of highly disciplined production... |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR_Speculative | 17 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Speculative Forms
Speculative Forms
Drawn from the Hirshhorn’s expansive collection, Speculative Forms reconsiders the historical development of sculpture since the early twentieth century and its critique of the autonomy of the object. Including more than fifty works, this two-floor exhibition collapses conventional... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Summer_Ono | 21 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Summer of Yoko Ono
Summer of Yoko Ono
June 17, 2017 – September 17, 2017
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree for Washington, DC, the Hirshhorn presents a selection of the artist’s most iconic and emotionally charged installations and performances.
A gift from the artist in 2007, Wish Tree is... |
| 2012_DC_SIHIR_Suprasensorial | 23 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space
February 23, 2012 – August 12, 2012
The focus of this exhibition is to explain the international light-and-space art movement of the mid- and late 20th century. The exhibition consists of large-scale installations by five artists from South... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIR_Evidence | 36 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: The Evidence Room
The Evidence Room
June 12, 2019 – September 8, 2019
Designed and built for the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, The Evidence Room draws upon extensive archival research to recreate incriminating architectural features of Auschwitz that were dismantled and destroyed by the Nazis at the end of... |
| 2018_DC_SIHIR_Anthology | 24 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014–2016
Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014–2016
Mar 06–May 28, 2018
Anthology 2014–2016 is an installation of thirty-four original collage-poems by the Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis. Exhibited at the Hirshhorn for the first time in its entirety, this series of evocative black-and-white works draws on an unlikely... |
| 2021_DC_SIHIR_Toyin | 57 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory
November 19, 2021 – April 3, 2022
A Countervailing Theory is a major exhibition of work by Toyin Ojih Odutola (born Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1985). The exhibition features a recent body of work in the form of a monumental cycle of 40 large-scale, monochromatic... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Absence | 66 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: What Absence Is Made Of
What Absence Is Made Of
October 19, 2017 – Summer 2019
More than 70 recent acquisitions and rarely shown works reimagine the extensive permanent collection. Prompted by today’s increasing focus on the material and digital worlds, the exhibition explores the compelling and enigmatic ways in which... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Infinity | 211 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (pictures from 5 visits)
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
February 23, 2017 – May 14, 2017
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors is a celebration of the legendary Japanese artist’s sixty-five-year career and promises to be one of 2017’s essential art experiences. Visitors have the unprecedented opportunity to discover six of Kusama’s... |
| 2016_DC_SIHIR_Vw | 8 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- View from Terrace |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Vw | 9 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- View from Terrace |
| 2023_DC_SIHIR_Vw | 8 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- View from Terrace |
| 2002_DC_SIHIR | 23 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside)
The collection of five people standing in various stages of distress is a story about a town in Europe that was threatened with destruction unless they came up with five human sacrifices. |
| 2003_DC_SIHIR | 1 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside) |
| 2004_DC_SIHIR | 11 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside) |
| 2005_DC_SIHIR | 47 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside) |
| 2006_DC_SIHIR | 2 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside) |
| 2009_DC_SIHIR | 122 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside) |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR | 3 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside) |
| 2018_DC_SIHIR | 10 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside)
The new Dolcezza Coffee and Hiroshi Sugimoto lobby. Plus the $20 suggested donation box, which I'd never seen in a Smithsonian museum before. |
| 2019_DC_SIHIR | 4 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside)
They've implemented a phone-based museum guide system for additional information about the exhibits. |
| 2022_DC_SIHIR | 3 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside) |
| 1998_DC_SIHIRO | 7 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) |
| 2000_DC_SIHIRO | 2 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) |
| 2002_DC_SIHIRO | 18 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) |
| 2003_DC_SIHIRO | 1 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside)
This was a new outdoor sculpture they were installing outside of the Hirshhorn. |
| 2005_DC_SIHIRO | 16 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside)
I was taking a lunch break and saw this banner on the Hirshhorn Museum. Lots of different languages, none of which were all that familiar. But if you look toward the lower left, you'll see "Don't be afraid!" in small script. I have no idea what the exhibit is like but I was certainly curious after... |
| 2007_DC_SIHIRO | 1 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) |
| 2009_DC_SIHIRO | 25 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) |
| 2013_DC_SIHIRO | 44 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) |
| 2015_DC_SIHIRO | 11 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside)
Including annual maintenance on Juan Munoz, Last Conversation Piece, 1994-95 |
| 2017_DC_SIHIRO | 24 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) |
| 2019_DC_SIHIRO | 9 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside)
The Roy Lichtenstein piece has been sent off to the Kennedy Center |
| 2020_DC_SIHIRO | 13 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside)
August 17 was the first day that the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden reopened to the public. There were also a couple of new pieces that had been installed. |
| 2021_DC_SIHIRO | 51 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) |
| 2022_DC_SIHIRO | 5 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside)
The scaffolding is coming down and the wonderful "Nicholas Party: Draw the Curtain" wrapping is all gone now. |
| 2023_DC_SIHIRO | 42 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) |
| 2021_DC_SIHIRO_DeVille | 13 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Abigail DeVille: Light of Freedom
Abigail DeVille: Light of Freedom
October 15, 2021 – April 17, 2022
Abigail DeVille’s critically acclaimed sculpture Light of Freedom is a mixed-media installation through which the artist responds to the Black Lives Matter movement within the larger context of America’s long relationship to the idea... |
| 2012_DC_SIHIRO_Circle | 50 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads sculpture by Al Weiwei
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
April 19, 2012 – March 17, 2013
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s monumental outdoor installation showcases twelve 10-foot-tall bronze animal heads representing the signs of the Chinese zodiac. Placed around the perimeter of the fountain in the museum’s central... |
| 2005_DC_SIHIRO_Afraid | 2 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Directions -- Jim Hodges: Don't be Afraid |
| 2012_DC_SIHIRO_Aitken | 45 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Doug Aitken: Song 1
Doug Aitken: SONG 1
March 22, 2012 to May 13, 2012
Sunset to Midnight
For nearly eight weeks this spring, internationally renowned artist Doug Aitken (American, b. Redondo Beach, California, 1968; lives and works in Los Angeles and New York) will illuminate the entire facade of the Hirshhorn’s iconic... |
| 2020_DC_SIHIRO_4Ward | 4 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Forward Into Light |
| 2019_DC_SIHIRO_Truth | 5 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth)
In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth)
June 8, 2019 – June 23, 2019
What is the truth? We all have our own definitions of and beliefs in “the truth.” Now is your chance to tell it.
The Hirshhorn is hosting the D.C. debut of In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth), a long-term global project by... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIRO_Ufan_Open | 35 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Lee Ufan: Open Dimension
Lee Ufan: Open Dimension
September 27, 2019 – September 13, 2020
Lee Ufan: Open Dimension is an ambitious site-specific commission by the celebrated Korean artist Lee Ufan. The expansive installation, featuring 10 new sculptures from the artist’s signature and continuing Relatum series, marks Lee... |
| 2009_DC_SIHIRO_CSpider | 4 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Louise Bourgeois' Crouching Spider
Louise Bourgeois
February 26, 2009 – May 17, 2009
This is the first major survey since 1995 of works by the French-born artist Louise Bourgeois (born 1911). Bourgeois has worked through most of the avant-garde artistic movements of the 20th century, from Surrealism to Conceptual art, but has always... |
| 2021_DC_SIHIRO_Curtain | 46 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Nicolas Party: Draw the Curtain
Nicolas Party: Draw the Curtain
September 18, 2021 Through Spring 2022
The exterior of the Hirshhorn’s iconic cylindrical building will be the site of internationally renowned Swiss artist Nicolas Party’s newest artwork. Draw the Curtain (2021) will wrap 360 degrees around the temporary scaffolding... |
| 2022_DC_SIHIRO_Curtain | 6 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Nicolas Party: Draw the Curtain
Nicolas Party: Draw the Curtain
September 18, 2021 Through Spring 2022
The exterior of the Hirshhorn’s iconic cylindrical building will be the site of internationally renowned Swiss artist Nicolas Party’s newest artwork. Draw the Curtain (2021) will wrap 360 degrees around the temporary scaffolding... |
| 2016_DC_SIHIRO_Pumpkin | 5 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Pumpkin
Pumpkin
December 10, 2016 – Through spring 2017
Legendary painter, sculptor and performance artist Kusama (b. 1929, Tokyo, Japan) uses the pumpkin as a signature form, embracing the gourd as both an allegory and a form of self-portraiture in paintings, drawings, sculptures, and some of her most... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIRO_Pumpkin | 10 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Pumpkin
Kusama's Pumpkin was reinstalled on the lawn a few years after its official installation. In later years, it would appear as part of the indoor Kusama exhibits. |
| 2016_DC_SIHIRO_Still_Life | 24 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
August 6, 2016 – Summer 2017
Still Life with Spirit and Xitle features a car being crushed by a volcanic boulder with a comical smiley face painted on it. This slapstick disaster scene is one of the most well-known works of art by artist Jimmie Durham, a sculptor who... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIRO_Still_Life | 1 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
August 6, 2016 – Indefinitely
Still Life with Spirit and Xitle features a car being crushed by a volcanic boulder with a comical smiley face painted on it. This slapstick disaster scene is one of the most well-known works of art by artist Jimmie Durham, a sculptor who... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIRO_Still_Life | 6 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
August 6, 2016 – Indefinitely
Still Life with Spirit and Xitle features a car being crushed by a volcanic boulder with a comical smiley face painted on it. This slapstick disaster scene is one of the most well-known works of art by artist Jimmie Durham, a sculptor who... |
| 2020_DC_SIHIRO_Still_Life | 3 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
August 6, 2016 – Indefinitely
Still Life with Spirit and Xitle features a car being crushed by a volcanic boulder with a comical smiley face painted on it. This slapstick disaster scene is one of the most well-known works of art by artist Jimmie Durham, a sculptor who... |
| 2009_DC_SIHIRO_Wish_Tree | 14 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Wish Tree for Washington, D.C. |
| 2018_DC_SIHIRO_Wish_Tree | 13 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.
Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.
June 23, 2018 – September 3, 2018
A summer favorite, Ono’s interactive artwork “Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.” invites visitors to tie handwritten wishes to branches of a living Japanese dogwood tree in the museum’s sculpture garden. Starting June 23 through Labor Day... |
| 2019_DC_SIHIRO_Wish_Tree | 3 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.
The tree after the wish tree project ended. |
| 1997_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 40 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 1998_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 3 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2000_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 5 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2002_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 23 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2004_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 21 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2009_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 96 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2013_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 93 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2015_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 28 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2019_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 5 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2020_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 118 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2021_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 18 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2023_DC_SIHIRO_SG | 17 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden |
| 2024_02_22B8_SIHIRO_SG | 16 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden
The bulldozers are tearing down the old one. |
| 2024_03_30C2_SIHIRO_SG | 15 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Sculpture Garden (Partially reviewed) |
| 2020_DC_SIHIR_CityOno | 5 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum @ Union Market-- Hirshhorn in the CIty: Yoko Ono’s RELAX. YOUR HEART
Yoko Ono’s RELAX. YOUR HEART
IS STRONGER THAN WHAT
YOU THINK ! x Union Market
Hirshhorn in the City
On view Sept. 14, 2017
Yoko Ono is a renowned artist whose work influenced Feminism and directions in new and contemporary media. She has also worked tirelessly for human rights and peace. RELAX.... |
| 2017_DC_SIHIR_Orchids | 31 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens & USBG -- orchids: A MOMENT @ Hirshhorn
orchids: A MOMENT
January 14, 2017 – May 14, 2017
The Smithsonian Gardens and United States Botanic Garden 2017 Orchid Exhibition, showcases over 100 orchids in a limited-time display amidst the Hirshhorn’s unique architecture. Selected from the collections of both Smithsonian Gardens and the U.S.... |
| 2023_DC_Behaving_Boldly_230119 | 113 | Hirshhorn Museum -- Event: Behaving Boldly: Women Leading 21st-Century Museums (w/Melissa Chiu, Kaywin Feldman, Kim Sajet, Stephanie Stebich, and Sarah Thornton)
Behaving Boldly: Women Leading 21st-Century Museums
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Washington Post commissioned a special art work by feminist artist group Guerilla Girls calling attention to the lack of women represented at art museums in the nation’s capital. Nearly 15 years later, these... |
| 2013_DC_SIHIR_Damage_131026 | 43 | Hirshhorn Museum -- Event: Damage Control Symposium (w/Yoko Ono)
Damage Control Symposium
This panel discussion with Yoko Ono and Raphael Montañez Ortiz, participants in the original 1966 Destruction in Art Symposium; artist Monica Bonvicini; and art historian Dario Gamboni will explore the ways in which artists have used destruction as a means of responding to... |
| 2019_DC_Sound_Scene_190630 | 17 | Hirshhorn Museum -- Event: Sound Scene XII: AMPLIFY
Sound Scene XII: AMPLIFY
June 29, 2019 | 10:00 am–5:00 pm
Sound Scene XII: AMPLIFY, organized in partnership with sound collective DC Listening Lounge, unites local audio artists with national and international creators to transform the Hirshhorn into an interactive sonic wonderland.
This year Sound... |