Directions—Amy Sillman, Third Person Singular

March 13, 2008 to July 6, 2008

Amy Sillman is known for paintings that are intimate, psychological and full of humor and pathos.

Currents: Recent Acquisitions

October 9, 2007 to November 16, 2008

Currents features a selection of significant works from 1967 forward, all acquired by the Hirshhorn over the last four years.

Black Box: Kimsooja

April 28, 2008 to August 17, 2008

In Kimsooja's A Laundry Woman, Yamuna River, Delhi, 2000, the artist acts as a visual and spiritual mediator through which viewers are invited to contemplate the flow of the river--a ...

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image

February 14, 2008 to May 11, 2008

The Hirshhorn marks this coming year with an unprecedented two-part exploration of contemporary moving-image art and the ways in which the cinematic has blurred distinctions between illus...

Mark di Suvero

Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore)

1967

Wayne Gonzales

Pentagon

2004-2005

Gary Hill

Suspension of Disbelief (for Marine)

1991-1992

Karin Sander

Ostrich Egg

(2005)

Jeff Koons

Kiepenkerl

1987

friday gallery talk

National Gallery Associate Curator Molly Donovan on "Black Box: Kimsooja"

May 16, 2008

National Gallery Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Molly Donovan on "Black Box: Kimsooja"

friday gallery talk

Curatorial Assistant Al Miner discusses Dan Graham

May 30, 2008

Curatorial Assistant and Assistant to the Acting Director and Chief Curator Al Miner discusses Dan Graham's Sculpture Garden commission

Summer Camp film series

June 5, 2008 to June 29, 2008

It's that time of year again! The Hirshhorn's Summer Camp series is back by popular demand.

After Hours

June 20, 2008

Visit hirshhorn.si.edu/afterhours for more information and to buy tickets.Be among the first to see Part II of the epic exhibition The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Ima...

meet the artist

Isaac Julien

June 19, 2008

One of Britain's foremost artists, filmmaker Isaac Julien discusses his work and career, including Fantôme Créole, 2005, a four-screen investigation of character, cinema,...

meet the artist

Candice Breitz

June 26, 2008

In her piece Mother + Father, 2005, on view in Realisms, Candice Breitz extracts dialogue from Hollywood films, isolating the stereotypes of mothers and fathers.