George Dondero, chairman of the House Committee on Public Buildings, delivered a memorable speech declaring that modernism was a "Communist conspiracy" that threatened to deprave American museums, and held up approval of modernist works like the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden that line the Mall today.
Westermann, the retrospective of his work currently on view at the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, offers a splendid, if often bumpy, opportunity to acquaint oneself with this singular figure.
di Suvero's work is also on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian's
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modem Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, and the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, N.Y.
The
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, devoted to contemporary and modern art, was created by an Act of Congress in 1966 to house the collection donated to the Smithsonian by Joseph H.
have exhibited extensively worldwide and their work is in prestigious collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Tate Modern in London.
"Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century" at the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Johnson also oversaw the creation of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, whose programs entertain three million people each year and are televised to millions more, and the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which attracts more than 700,000 visitors annually.
Greene, a 1926 graduate of Columbia College, has served as a trustee of many non-profit organizations, such as Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Thirteen/WNET, the Juilliard School and Montefiore Hospital, as well as chairman of the board of trustees of the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
'Mark Bradford: Pickett's Charge' is at the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN * October 29, 2015--February 15, 2016 * Curated by Valerie Fletcher * This comprehensive survey will include more than one hundred works of Surrealist sculpture by some twenty artists based throughout Europe and the US in addition to an unanticipated selection of Man Ray's rayographs, shots of "La Poupee" by Hans Bellmer, and transgendering photographs by Claude Cahun.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN * May 16-October 27 * Curated by Evelyn Hankins * Upon entering Jennie C.
The survey is accompanied by a catalogue by Brenda Richardson, a former deputy director and chief curator of the Baltimore Museum of Art, who attempts to right the near wrong of the present-day assessment of Truitt's anomalous achievement (a task also undertaken, on a much larger scale, by Kristen Hileman in her 2009 retrospective of Truitt's work at the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC).