Friday, July 24
8 pm to Midnight
$18 in advance
After Hours at the Hirshhorn is Washington's premier contemporary art event! Stay up late, and enjoy extended museum hours, curator led gallery tours, music from your favorite DJs, and special performances.
"One of DC's most exciting and accessible cultural occasions." -Brightest Young Things
"The Hirshhorn party is still hot.. [and] gets a crowd not found anywhere else in DC." -Wonkette
performance
NIGHT HAWKS
izzy-b & nyko skyye
with special guest
dahlu
DJs izzy-b (aka iona rozeal brown) and nyko skyye spin their special blend of hip-hop, r&b, soul and deep house tracks on the plaza from 8:00 pm to midnight.
exhibitions
Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
Check out an updated rotation of artworks in the exhibition, Strange Bodies, which brings together some of the most praised and popular examples of figuration from the collection to show how expressionistic and surrealistic impulses toward human representation have evolved from the early and mid-twentieth century to recent decades.
Gallery Talk: Curator Kristin Hileman at 8:30 pm
Lower Level
Black Box: Guido Van der Werve
In Nummer Acht (#8) everything is going to be alright, 2007, artist Guido van der Werve plods just ahead of a gigantic ice-breaking ship as it crashes through the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland.
Lower Level
Directions: Walead Beshty: Legibility on Color 
Backgrounds
Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty creates photographs and sculptures that reconsider some of the fundamental premises of modern art. Beshty’s mesmerizing photographs blend an enduring fascination with modernist visual culture and an astute inquiry into the nature of photography.
Third Floor
ticketing information
Online – Tickets are now on sale. Click here to purchase tickets.
By phone – Tickets may be purchased by phone by calling the Smithsonian Business Ventures Reservation Center at (202) 633-4629 or toll free at (877) 932-4629. Phone operators are available seven days a week from 10 am to 5 pm, EST, except December 25th. Phone tickets are available until 24 hours before the event.
In Person – Advance tickets for After Hours can be purchased at the Smithsonian IMAX® theater box offices located at the National Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of Natural History. Box offices open at 10 am each day and close after the start of the last scheduled show. Tickets for After Hours cannot be purchased at the Hirshhorn.
NO REFUNDS – NO EXCHANGES – MULTIPLE COPIES OF PRINT-AT-HOME TICKETS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
