From top to bottom: Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995/2009; Colored Vases, 2007-2010. Installation view of Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 2012. Photo: Cathy Carver.
Hirshhorn staff and outside experts discuss selections from current exhibitions, including Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance; Over, Under, Next; and Black Box: DEMOCRACIA, as well as works from the permanent collection. Groups meet at the Information Desk in the Hirshhorn Lobby. Talks are typically recorded for podcast.
Upcoming Talks
Hirshhorn director of public programs and education Milena Kalinovska discusses Jeff Koons’s Kiepenkerl in the Sculpture Garden
Friday, May 24, 2013
Collector and Hirshhorn trustee Robert Lehrman on Joseph Cornell in Over, Under, Next
Friday, May 31, 2013
Hirshhorn associate curator Evelyn Hankins on Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance
Friday, June 7, 2013
WPFW 89.3 FM jazz host and Georgetown University adjunct professor Rusty Hassan on Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance
Friday, June 14, 2013
Past Talks
Hirshhorn’s Gwynne Ryan discusses conservation issues surrounding Ann Hamilton’s palimpsest in Over, Under, Next
Friday, May 17, 2013
American Parkour founders M2 and Travis Graves discuss DEMOCRACIA’s Ser y Durar [To Be and To Last]
Friday, May 10, 2013
Dan Steinhilber discusses his work Untitled in Over, Under, Next
Friday, May 3, 2013
Associate Curator Evelyn Hankins on Over, Under, Next
Friday, April 26, 2013
Director of Public Programs and Education Milena Kalinovska discusses Jiri Kolar’s works in Over, Under, Next
Friday, April 19, 2013
Georgetown University Gallery Director and Professor Evan Reed discusses George Tooker’s The Letter Box in Out of the Ordinary
Friday, April 12, 2013
Elizabeth Prelinger, Keyser Family Professor of Art History at Georgetown University, discusses Display Stand with Madonnas in Out of the Ordinary
Friday, April 5, 2013
Collector Manuel de Santaren discusses Jaime Davidovich’s video work
Friday, March 29, 2013
National Portrait Gallery historian David Ward discusses Yasumasa Morimura’s Self Portrait (Actress)/After Marlene Dietrich 2 in Out of the Ordinary
Friday, March 22, 2013
Hirshhorn’s Glenn Dixon on Richard Artschwager’s Two Indentations in Out of the Ordinary
Friday, March 15, 2013
Tim Doud, American University Associate Professor of Studio Art, on Nikki S. Lee in Out of the Ordinary
Friday, March 8, 2013
Assistant Curator Melissa Ho presents a walkthrough of Out of the Ordinary
Friday, March 1, 2013
Curatorial Assistant Katherine Markoski discusses Jean Dubuffet’s Limbour as a Crustacean
Friday, February 22, 2013
Hirshhorn registrar Melissa Front discusses logistical challenges surrounding three works in Ai Weiwei: According to What?
Friday, February 15, 2013
Hirshhorn interpretive guide Janet Hong discusses Ai Weiwei’s photo installations Provisional Landscapes and Beijing’s 2008 Olympic Stadium
Friday, February 8, 2013
Namiko Kunimoto, assistant professor of art at American University, discusses a work from Ai Weiwei: According to What?
Friday, February 1, 2013
Freer/Sackler associate curator Carol Huh discusses several wood works in Ai Weiwei: According to What?
Friday, January 18, 2013
Hirshhorn exhibition production coordinator Beth Skirkanich and assistant curator Melissa Ho discuss the installation of Barbara Kruger’s Belief+Doubt
Friday, January 25, 2013
Hirshhorn exhibition coordinator Larissa Raddell discusses the installation process of Ai Weiwei: According to What?
Friday, January 11, 2013
Hirshhorn interpretive guide Janina Anderson discusses Ai Weiwei’s Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn
Friday, January 4, 2013
Hirshhorn interpretive guide Remina Greenfield discusses Ai Weiwei’s Straight
Friday, December 28, 2012
Artist, designer, and American University assistant professor Yana Sakellion on Antonio Rovaldi’s video work Opening Day
Friday, December 21, 2012
Michelle C. Wang, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, on ceramic pieces in Ai Weiwei: According to What?
Friday, December 14, 2012
DEMOCRACIA discuss their work Ser y Durar
Friday, December 7, 2012
Associate Curator of Modern Art Evelyn Hankins discusses Gerhard Richter’s Sanctuary
Friday, November 9. 2012
Assistant Curator Mika Yoshitake on Ai Weiwei’s Kippe, 2006
Friday, October 26, 2012
Chief Curator Kerry Brougher on Ai Weiwei’s Cube Light, 2008
Friday, October 19, 2012
Jeroen Eisinga
Friday, October 12, 2012
Hirshhorn assistant curator Mika Yoshitake on Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 2010
Friday, May 4, 2012
Assistant curator Melissa Ho on Morris Louis’s Charred Journal: Firewritten I, 1951
Friday, April 27, 2012
Amanda Jirón-Murphy, educator at the Phillips Collection and independent curator on Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space
Friday, March 2, 2012
Jacquelyn D. Serwer, chief curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, on Jacob Lawrence
Friday, February 17, 2012
Curators Melissa Ho and Mika Yoshitake on Dark Matters: Selections from the Collection
Friday, February 3, 2012
Director of Public Programs and Education Milena Kalinovska on Constantin Brancusi
Friday, January 13, 2012
National Geographic travel writer Andrew Evans on Hamish Fulton
Friday, July 22, 2011
Assistant Curator Melissa Ho on Frank Stella
Friday, May 5, 2011
Lee Talbot, Associate Curator at the Textile Museum, on Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977
Friday, April 29, 2011
Artist/musician Robin Rose on Blinky Palermo
Friday, March 25, 2011
Artist Patrick McDonough on Blinky Palermo
Friday, March 18, 2011
Curatorial assistant Jessica Beck on Andy Warhol
Friday, March 4, 2011
Curatorial research assistant Javier Ortega-Alverez on the collection
Friday, February 11, 2011
Conservator Clarke Bedford on ColorForms
Friday, January 7, 2011
Merry A. Foresta on Directions: Cyprien Gaillard and Mario Garcia Torres
Friday, December 17, 2010
Christina Schepelmann on Guillermo Kuitca
Friday, December 10, 2010
Curator Evelyn Hankins on Fred Sandback
Tuesday, September 28 2010
Daniel Moquay on Yves Klein
Thursday, July 29 2010
Professor Jerrold Levinson on Yves Klein
Monday, June 21 2010
Glenn Dixon on Phoebe Greenberg
Monday, March 15 2010
Artist and Corcoran College professor Mark Cameron Boyd on Allen Ruppersberg
Monday, March 1 2010
Larry Bird, Senior Curator at National Museum of American History, on James Rosenquist
Thursday, November 19 2009
Tatiana Flores on Rafael Jesus Soto
Thursday, November 12 2009
Emory University art historian James Meyer on Anne Truitt
Friday, November 6 2009
Air and Space curator Dominic Pisano on Roszak’s Ascension
Thursday, October 29 2009
Artist David Page on Nick Cave’s Soundsuit
Monday, September 28 2009
DC-area artist Erik Sandberg on Yinka Shonibare
Tuesday, July 28 2009
Virginia Shore on Giacometti
Monday, July 13 2009
Video artist Kathryn Cornelius on Black Box: Guido van der Werve
Friday, June 5 2009
Colby Caldwell on Walead Beshty
Monday, June 1 2009
Robert Lehrman on Strange Bodies
Tuesday, March 31 2009
Grey Gundaker on Lucas Samaras
Monday, March 30 2009
Howard Singerman on Richard Nonas
Monday, December 29 2008
Artist and Professor Tim Spelios on Bruce Nauman
Tuesday, December 16 2008
Arts writer Kriston Capps on Ed Ruscha
Monday, September 22 2008
Arts writer Glenn Dixon on Bruce Nauman
Wednesday, September 17 2008
Curator Anne Ellegood on The Cinema Effect: Realisms
Tuesday, July 1 2008
Artist Bill Christenberry on Lee Friedlander
Tuesday, June 24 2008
National Gallery’s Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Molly Donovan on Kimsooja
Thursday, May 22 2008
Artist Athena Tacha on Mona Hatoum’s Entrail Carpet
Tuesday, May 6 2008
Randall Packer on Gary Hill
Friday, March 21 2008
Noelle Tan
Tuesday, February 12 2008
Artist Alyson Shotz and curator Anne Ellegood
Tuesday, January 15 2008
In Conversation with Ghada Amer
Sunday, November 11 2007
In Conversation with Nene Humphrey
Thursday, November 1 2007
Anne Ellegood on Currents
Thursday, November 1 2007
Jeffrey Grove on Morris Louis
Monday, September 24 2007
Domonic Molon on Wolfgang Tillmans
Wednesday, May 23 2007
Russell Ferguson on Wolfgang Tillmans
Sunday, May 13 2007
Histories and Mysteries of the Hirshhorn
Tuesday, April 3 2007
