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HIRSG_200802_05.JPG: Jeff Koons
Kiepenkerl, 1987
Stainless Steel
HIRSG_200802_24.JPG: The Hirshhorn is planning something special.
We are working to revitalize our Sculpture Garden to support our mission, expand programming and collections, enhance visitor experience, and address critical infrastructure needs.
Want to learn more about the Hirshhorn's Sculpture Garden revitalization plans? Visit hirshhorn.si.edu/sculpture-garden-revitalization
HIRSG_200802_33.JPG: Mark di Suvero
Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore)
1967
HIRSG_200817_001.JPG: Welcome
Experience the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden
Open now with limited capacity
Passes not required
HIRSG_200817_027.JPG: Welcome to the Smithsonian!
We have implemented enhanced health and safety measures for our staff, visitors, volunteers, and collections.
Please be mindful of all posted guidelines during your visit today.
Thank you for doing your part.
* Maintain a safe social distance.
* Wear a face covering.
* Wash hands, sanitize, and practice good hygiene.
HIRSG_200817_032.JPG: Help us protect our visitors, staff, and volunteers:
Conduct a self-check of your health before entry.
1. Have you had any of the following NEW or UNUSUAL-FOR-YOU symptoms within the past 72 hours? ...
2. Have you or anyone in your household or group tested positive or are awaiting test results for COVID-19?
3. Do you or anyone in your household or group have the symptoms of COVID-19 listed above?
...
HIRSG_200817_044.JPG: For the love of art, please do your part!
Thank you for social distancing
HIRSG_200817_047.JPG: Lots of one-way signs mark the trails.
HIRSG_200817_049.JPG: Jacques Lipchitz
Figure, 1926-30, cast 1958-61
HIRSG_200817_058.JPG: Beverly Pepper
Ex Cathedra, 1967
HIRSG_200817_074.JPG: Henry Moore
Working Model for "Three-Way Piece No. 3: Vertebrae", 1968, cast 1969
HIRSG_200817_079.JPG: Welcome to the Hirshhorn Museum's Plaza:
First opened in 1974, the Hirshhorn's plaza displays recent sculptures by international artists. More than 400,000 people visit the sculpture garden and plaza each year. So while we invite you to look, relax, study, stroll, sketch, and take photographs, we ask that you please do not touch the sculptures.
Sculptures are more fragile than most people realize. Steel and other metal works are made from several pieces welded together. These connections can weaken and break when weigh is applied. Bronze sculptures are actually hollow casts with thin surfaces that are easily dented or scratched. In addition, all outdoor sculptures suffer from urban air pollution, so we protect them with a delicate coating of clear wax. But this invisible protectant erodes when touched, even lightly, leaving that part of the piece exposed to the elements. Also, fingernails and jewelry may cause tiny scratches that can never be fixed. For these reasons, climbing, sitting on, or leaning against any sculpture is not permitted.
Please help preserve these remarkable artworks for future generations.
HIRSG_200817_085.JPG: Huma Bhabha
We Come in Peace, 2018
HIRSG_200817_093.JPG: Huma Bhabha
We Come in Peace, 2018
HIRSG_200817_117.JPG: Lucio Fontana
Spatial Concept: Nature
1959-60, cast 1965
Bronze
HIRSG_200817_132.JPG: Auguste Rodin
The Burghers of Calais, 1884-89, cast 1953-59
HIRSG_200817_149.JPG: Giacomo Manzu
Self-Portrait with Model at Bergamo, 1942
HIRSG_200817_165.JPG: Henry Moore
King and Queen, 1952-53
HIRSG_200817_197.JPG: Please maintain a safe social distance
OR
Limit to one household or group at a time
HIRSG_200817_220.JPG: Henry Moore
Three-Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop, 1963, cast 1964
HIRSG_200817_228.JPG: The Hirshhorn is planning something special.
We are working to revitalize our Sculpture Garden to support our mission, expand programming and collections, enhance visitor experience, and address critical infrastructure needs.
Want to learn more about the Hirshhorn's Sculpture Garden revitalization plans? Visit hirshhorn.si.edu/sculpture-garden-revitalization
HIRSG_200817_259.JPG: Tony Cragg
Subcommittee. 1991
HIRSG_200817_274.JPG: ARTLAB
The ARTLAB space is closed
HIRSG_200817_277.JPG: Henry Moore
Seated Woman, 1956-67, cast 1962
HIRSG_200817_287.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Walking Man, 1900, enlarged 1905, cast 1962
HIRSG_200817_294.JPG: Yoko Ono
Wish Tree, 2007
The Wish Tree series, begun in 1996, continues Ono's interactive art tradition by inviting visitors to whisper wishes to the tree.
HIRSG_200817_301.JPG: Please do not tie wishes to this tree.
Whisper your wishes to the tree during the fall, winter, and spring.
Wish Tree for Washington, DC will re-open in the summer, after the tree has bloomed.
HIRSG_200817_308.JPG: Barry Flanagan
The Drummer, 1989-90
HIRSG_200817_322.JPG: Auguste Rodin
Crouching Woman, 1880-82, enlarged 1907-11, cast 1962
HIRSG_200817_354.JPG: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
The Great Warrior of Montauban, 1898-1900, cast 1956
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11.
The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year!
Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995.
Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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