Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Events Week of June 8-12: Night at the Museum, Godzilla and Cantemir
Monday, June 8: So, June isn't busting out all over as far as special events go, sad to say. But there are still lots of regularly-scheduled daily events happening around the mall to enrich your museum-going experience. You can see a complete listing of tours, animal feedings and educational movie ...
June 08, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Walead Beshty at the Hirshhorn -- Abstract Art or Photography?
The stacks of FedEx boxes and cubes of cracked glass scattered throughout the third floor of the Hirshhorn don't look like priceless works of contemporary sculpture, which is probably why museum visitors keep crossing the security tape and setting off the alarms.Or maybe they do it just to get a cl...
June 02, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Smithsonian Events Week of 5/18-22: Art, Gardens and Butterflies
Monday, May 18: Docent's Choice TourTake a little risk at the art gallery today and let the docent lead you wherever they will! Will it be America's President's exhibition? Will it be one of the special shows on display? You won't know until you come over here and enjoy the unexpected pleasures of ...
May 18, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian Events Week of 4/27-5/1/09: Vietnam, Jazz, Cabaret and Eudora Welty
Monday, April 27: Operation Babylift: Saving Children from the Vietnam WarIn April 1975 American humanitarian workers in South Vietnam worked to evacuate orphaned children to North America, Europe and Australia just as North Vietnamese were sweeping through the region. Operation Babylift transferre...
April 27, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian Events Week of 4/20-24: Commodores, Quilting, Keith Haring and Forensics
Monday, April 20: The Navy CommodoresThe Navy Commodores will be performing the jazz standards of Benny Goodman in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month. (Yes, note the word "navy" to avoid potential confusion with those other musical Commodores.) Free. American History Museum, 12:00 PMTuesday, April 21...
April 20, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Natural History Museum's Spider Man Talks About Bourgeois
Our ears perked here at ATM when we heard that Jonathan Coddington, senior curator of entomology at the National Museum of Natural History, is giving a gallery talk tomorrow on Louise Bourgeois’ spider sculptures at the Hirshhorn. It’s not everyday that insect folks provide commentary on art.I chec...
March 27, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Smithsonian Events Week of 3/23-27: Marcel Duchamp, The Peacock Room and more!
Monday, March 23: Historic Theater: Letters HomeDeliver the letter, the sooner the better. During times of war, correspondence is of critical importance to the service-people who are far away from home. See how the art of letter writing has evolved over the years in this dramatic presentation that ...
March 23, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: Louise Bourgeois, Kirkikou and the Sorceress
Friday, February 27: Friday Gallery Talk: Louise BourgeoisAn afternoon at the art gallery? How bourgeois! Louise Bourgeois to be exact. She's the artist responsible for the big honkin' spider living outside the Hirshhorn's entryway and the focus of a recently-opened exhibition of her work. She is a...
February 27, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Meet the Artist: Ori Gersht
Sirens echoed through a room in the Hirshhorn Museum during an artist lecture by Ori Gersht last week. The people around me remained silent, busy focusing on the still life image of flowers being projected onto the screen in front of us. They could ignore the warning, but I knew what was coming. I ...
February 25, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Smithsonian Events Week of 2/23-27: Bourgeois, Phone Booth
Monday, February 23: Featherwork WorkshopYou know what your spring wardrobe needs? Feathers, and lots of 'em! Learn how to make a war bonnet of your very own under the tutelage of Dennis Zotigh. Free, but reservations required. Call 202-633-6644, or email NMAI-GroupReservations@si.edu to reserve yo...
February 23, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Groundhog Day Recap -- Winter Scenes at the Smithsonian
The revelry extended beyond Pittsburgh’s city limits as Punxsutawney Phil awoke yesterday morning on Gobbler’s Knob, a hill about 65 miles northeast of the Steel City, to 13,000 spectators—some still wearing their black and gold. As you may have heard, the famed groundhog saw his shadow, predicting...
February 03, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Weekend Events: It's an Inauguration Celebration!
Plan for this landmark weekend at goSmithsonian.com and Find a complete listing of the Smithsonian's Inaugural Events.Friday, January 16: Inaugural Activities: Yoko Ono's Wish TreeCelebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as well as your hopes and dreams for the future of our country. Come by the ...
January 16, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Body Art at the Hirshhorn
The Hirshhorn's new figurative art exhibit is called strange bodies—so don't say you weren't prepared. The collection features artistic representations of the human body from the 20th century and later. The gathered pieces are like a chart of human evolution, as seen by modern and contemporary a...
January 13, 2009 |
By Anika Gupta
Smithsonian Events Week of 1/12-1/18: Edgar Allan Poe and Strange Bodies
Monday, January 12: A Party for Edgar Allan Poe (He's 200, Never More)2009 has a bumper crop of notable bicentennials, notably Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and, you guessed it, author/poet Edgar Allan Poe. Come celebrate the birth of this literary luminary with dramatic readings and light refres...
January 12, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
At the Hirshhorn, Crouching Spider, Hidden Meaning?
Been by the Hirshhorn lately? If so, you’ve probably noticed the new spider sculpture outside the museum’s Independence Avenue entrance. At 9 feet tall and 27 feet wide, the bronze and steel arachnid is hard to miss.I passed it on my way in to work the other day and imagined that it was something h...
January 08, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
American Art Showcases Two Sides of Nature in Photographs
Frank Gohlke's pictures of Midwestern grain elevators and small Texas towns have appeared in more than ten books. On a tour of his new show at the American Art Museum, the guide referred to Gohlke's work as a "challenge" to the popular, almost romantic nature photos of Ansel Adams. Adams was a ma...
December 17, 2008 |
By Anika Gupta
Sneak Peek at the film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Why are we Around the Mall bloggers so excited about the upcoming Dreamworks 20th Century Fox film, Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian, set to be released next May? It’s all about ego. Here we have an opportunity to sit in a darkened theater and nitpick over all the inaccuracies.So, le...
November 28, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
DIY Cartoons on a Budget
How cool would it be to be able to make your own cartoons—and do it on the cheap? That was the subject of the latest installment of the Hirshhorn’s Art Lab—a program designed to get teens involved in the arts. Kids from far and wide—some as far away as Hungary—came in to get the lowdown on how to m...
November 13, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
To Be A Successful Art Collector
I'm going to admit that I am, by no means, a modern art buff. So when I attended the recent press preview of the new Panza Collection at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and got a look at the 39 highly conceptual paintings, sculptures, wall drawings, installations and films from the 1960s and ...
November 12, 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
Georgia O'Keeffe Confirmed You as a Friend on Facebook
If Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams had friended each other on Facebook, what would the two icons of 20th-century modern art have shared with each other?
After all, the pair were friends for more than 50 years. She went camping with him in Yosemite. He stopped by her New Mexico home for visits. An...
October 01, 2008 |
By Beth Py-Lieberman
