Key	Imgs	Short Description
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.

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