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The Hirshhorn Shows Off Its New Duchamp Collection

by Brendan L. Smith December 27, 2019

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.

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A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 28, 2019August 30, 2019

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.

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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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Curator Nato Thompson on Politics and the State of Social Practice Art

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian October 25, 2017October 25, 2017

The moderator of an upcoming conversation on art and dissent at the Hirshhorn Museum, Thompson talks about the changing art world.

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A Series at the Hirshhorn and Newseum Focuses on Art & Free Speech

by Hirshhorn October 12, 2017October 12, 2017

Presented in association with the exhibition Ai Weiwei: Trace, this conversation series will include perspectives from artists, journalists, activists, and academics.

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A Wireless Vibration Suit Helps the Deaf “Feel” Music

by Brendan L. Smith July 14, 2017July 14, 2017

Developed by Not Impossible Labs, the suit translates sounds into a cascade of vibrations, with different instruments registering in different zones across the body.

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7 Thoughts About Ivanka Trump’s Photo in Kusama’s “Obliteration Room”

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 9, 2017

And contemporary art continues to be part of the Jivanka brand.

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Immersed in Yayoi Kusama’s Lonely Labyrinths and Infinite Worlds

by Claire Voon February 23, 2017February 23, 2017

Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum brings together the largest number of mirror rooms ever, as they all appear to extend infinitely into distant darkness.

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Liberation Theology: Ragnar Kjartansson’s “God”

by James Gibbons December 10, 2016December 9, 2016

At one point, watching Kjartansson’s facial expression grow increasingly blissed-out and almost absent, his eyes directed heavenward, I sensed an echo of Bernini’s ecstatic St. Teresa.

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How Robert Irwin Breaks the Rules of Art

by Margaret Carrigan September 1, 2016September 1, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC – Americans have always appreciated a little rebelliousness.

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From Michelangelo to Marden, Seven Fierce Fistfights from Art History

by Elena Goukassian January 15, 2016January 24, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC — In her ongoing series Le ‘NEW’ Monocle, Shana Lutker creates stage sets and performances based on the circumstances and philosophical undertones of fistfights instigated by Surrealists in Paris in the 1920s.

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A Strange Family Drama, Starring Found Object Sculptures

by Bridey Heing December 22, 2015December 22, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC — The Black Box film series at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden isn’t where you’d expect to find a gaggle of teenage boys.

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