Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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
Two Films at the Hirshhorn Make Questions of Ethics an Art Form
Cameras don’t lie. As for the people behind them, that’s another issue entirely. This blending of fact and fiction inherent in moving-image media -- everything from what you see on the nightly news to Hollywood -- is explored in the Hirshhorn’s video art exhibition, "The Cinema Effect: Realisms." W...
July 14, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Speaking of Local Color, Do You Know About Gene Davis?
A new exhibition opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum this past weekend. "Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury," blazes with 27 huge color-is-expressive canvases, all works by Washington, D.C.-based artists, Leon Berkowitz, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Sam Gilliam, ...
July 07, 2008 |
By Beth Py-Lieberman
Hirshhorn's "Summer Camp" Film Series Proves Schtick is Slick
I find the saturation of computer-generated special effects in today’s movies a bit disappointing. Modern visuals make for extraordinarily slick films, but what happens to the work of movie artists who plied their craft before the age of techno-wizardry?
It’s painfully easy to write off old films ...
June 10, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
A Dream to Remember
One morning still in a sleep-induced fog, I venture over to the Hirshhorn Museum.There, I spiral into yet another dream sequence. Sheep, passing by in a herd, beg to be counted and the sight of a man’s chest rising and falling as he sleeps lulls me into synchronizing my own breath with his. Suddenl...
April 16, 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
Stale Cookies in a Jar
So what’s with the gray cookies jarred and on display in the Hirshhorn Museum’s lower-level galleries?Last Friday, on my lunch break, hungry for cookies, I skipped over to the museum to find out and attended a gallery talk by National Gallery of Art curator Matthew Witkovsky on the exhibit.Turns o...
February 06, 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
Indie Rock Band Fools & Horses to Play the Hirshhorn Friday Night
This just in. The increasingly popular Indie rock band, Fools & Horses, is playing this Friday night at the Hirshhorn Museum's Afterhours party. The group is making an unadvertized appearance; perhaps to keep their fans from swarming the museum and taking advantage of the low cover price of ju...
October 04, 2007 |
By Beth Py-Lieberman
An Explosion of Color
Artist Morris Louis (1912-1962) produced 600 paintings in just eight years before succumbing to lung cancer at age 49. His method--to use acrylic paints to stain a canvas that hadn't been primed so that the color seeped into the material--was an innovation that inspired a generation of artists. To...
September 19, 2007 |
By Beth Py-Lieberman
Casualty of War
A sculptor's provacative memorial acknowledges the high cost of conflict
May 2005 |
By Owen Edwards
Minding the "Milkstone"
When works of art are pollen and rice, and even milk, the Hirshhorn Museum gives them extra-special care
April 01, 2001 |
By Michael Kernan
