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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Posted inFilm

MTV’s The Exhibit Is Back With an Inflatable Dolphin

by Rhea Nayyar March 24, 2023March 24, 2023

Episode four, in which artists tackled themes of justice and injustice, was the most lifeless of the reality TV show so far.

Posted inFilm

Hirshhorn’s The Exhibit Premieres With Inflatable Banana and Lots of Cringe

by Rhea Nayyar March 6, 2023March 7, 2023

The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist is filled with awkward silences and art-world jargon.

Posted inNews

Hirshhorn’s New Reality Show Looks for America’s Next Top Artist

by Rhea Nayyar February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

Seven artists will compete for a cash prize and a chance to exhibit their work at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum.

Posted inNews

Reggaetonero J Balvin Named Hirshhorn Museum’s “Cultural Ambassador”

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu November 16, 2022November 16, 2022

The Colombian singer has come under scrutiny in the past for what some consider to be his appropriation of Afro-Caribbean musical traditions.

Posted inArt

Laurie Anderson Takes Stock of Today’s Unpredictable Weather

Avatar photo by Murat Cem Mengüç July 13, 2022July 20, 2022

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.

Posted inNews

Three Museums Suspend Jon Rafman Exhibitions Following Allegations of “Predatory Behavior”

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 29, 2020November 5, 2020

Institutions in Germany, Canada, and the US have postponed planned exhibitions of the digital media artist’s work after allegations against him surfaced online.

Posted inArt

The Decade that Changed the Art World: Money, Media, and Brands in the 1980s

Avatar photo by Tiernan Morgan May 10, 2018May 10, 2018

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.

Posted inNews

After Florida Shooting, Hirshhorn Museum Calls Off Art Projection Featuring Giant Gun [UPDATED]

by Elena Goukassian February 15, 2018February 27, 2018

The projection, by artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, will be rescheduled for a later date.

Posted inArt

Mark Bradford Reimagines “Pickett’s Charge” to Include New Voices

by Lyric Prince December 29, 2017December 29, 2017

Within Bradford’s “Pickett’s Charge,” there is a rawness, a free construction that flies in the face of popular culture’s insistence on a simplified historical and visual record.

Posted inArt

Tania Bruguera, Hank Willis Thomas, and Eric Gottesman on Making Art in Times of Turmoil

Avatar photo by Laila Pedro December 13, 2017December 13, 2017

The final event in the Hirshhorn Museum’s Ai Weiwei series will discuss the challenges and necessity of art making amid political turmoil.

Posted inArt

Mark Bradford’s Gettysburg Address

by James Gibbons November 18, 2017November 17, 2017

Bradford’s installation at the Hirshhorn Museum takes as its subject the ways we think, and ultimately don’t think, about history.

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