Film
MTV's The Exhibit Is All That's Wrong With the Art World
The sixth episode and season finale ultimately leaned into the very issues the reality show was ostensibly trying to address.
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Film
MTV’s The Exhibit Is Back With an Inflatable Dolphin
Episode four, in which artists tackled themes of justice and injustice, was the most lifeless of the reality TV show so far.
Film
MTV’s The Exhibit Needs a Cutthroat Judge
In episode three, the artists created works about the pandemic and bonded with each other, which is cute but doesn’t really make for good TV.
Film
Artists Tackle Social Media in Another Meh Episode of The Exhibit
Also, one contestant attempted three oil paintings in seven hours. It went as well as you can imagine.
Film
Hirshhorn’s The Exhibit Premieres With Inflatable Banana and Lots of Cringe
The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist is filled with awkward silences and art-world jargon.
News
Hirshhorn's New Reality Show Looks for America's Next Top Artist
Seven artists will compete for a cash prize and a chance to exhibit their work at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum.
News
Reggaetonero J Balvin Named Hirshhorn Museum’s “Cultural Ambassador”
The Colombian singer has come under scrutiny in the past for what some consider to be his appropriation of Afro-Caribbean musical traditions.
Art
Laurie Anderson Takes Stock of Today's Unpredictable Weather
Anderson insists that she doesn’t consider herself a political artist, but her retrospective, The Weather reveals that her artistic choices are entangled with her politics.
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Three Museums Suspend Jon Rafman Exhibitions Following Allegations of “Predatory Behavior”
Institutions in Germany, Canada, and the US have postponed planned exhibitions of the digital media artist's work after allegations against him surfaced online.
Art
The Hirshhorn Shows Off Its New Duchamp Collection
The Hirshhorn Museum, which previously had only one work by Duchamp, now ranks near the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art as holding the most prominent public collections of his work.
Art
A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room
The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.
Art
The Decade that Changed the Art World: Money, Media, and Brands in the 1980s
The primary takeaway of Brand New at the Hirshhorn is its demonstration of how high the stakes of representation became during the 1980s, a decade of proliferating imagery and technology.