WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum presents the recent work of Grazia Toderi (Italian, b. Padua, 1963) for the next installation of the museum’s “Directions” series that highlights artists from around the globe wor…
Hirshhorn Museum Presents "Directions: Grazia Toderi", Italian Video Artist’s U.S. Museum Debut
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum presents the recent work of Grazia Toderi (Italian, b. Padua, 1963) for the next installation of the museum’s “Directions” series that highlights artists from around the globe wor…
Luigi Presicce Wins Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina’s 2011 Emerging Talents Award
FLORENCE.- Emerging Talents is a biennial project promoted by the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS), Florence , comprising an exhibition and prize which aims to identify and foster the younger generation of Italian artists, aged between …
Luigi Presicce Wins 2011 Emerging Talents Award
FLORENCE.- Emerging Talents is a biennial project promoted by the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS), Florence , comprising an exhibition and prize which aims to identify and foster the younger generation of Italian artists, aged between …
Group Wants Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough’s Ouster Over Banned Video
WASHINGTON (AP).- A liberal group is calling for Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough to step down, and the board of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum is complaining that Clough bowed to political pressure in removing a video from an exhibit. Clough be…
Hirshhorn Acquires Artworks by Dan Flavin, Bruce Conner, Michael Snow and Gabriel Orozco
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum has recently acquired important artworks in sculpture, film and photography that demonstrate the museum’s commitment to collecting key artists’ work in depth in the tradition of its founder, Joseph H. Hir…
The Hirshhorn Launches ARTLAB+ Digital Technology and Innovative Approaches Are Key
WASHINGTON, D.C..- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum announces significant funding that supports technology-driven education for young people. The Hirshhorn is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant of $500,000 for…
Hirshhorn Museum in Washington Presents Major Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective
WASHINGTON, DC.- For more than 30 years Guillermo Kuitca (Argentinean, b. Buenos Aires, 1961) has forged a distinctive path as an artist, creating visually compelling works that reflect his intense and often ambivalent relationship to his primary mediu…
Manhattan Mogul Elie Hirschfeld Acquires $2,000,000 Original Frank Stella Painting
NEW YORK, NY.- Manhattan real estate tycoon and President of Hirschfeld Properties, LLC, Elie Hirschfeld announces the acquisition of “Gray Scramble X (double)” (1973, Alkyd on Canvas), an original oil painting by Frank Stella (born 1936) valued at $2,…
Hirshhorn Museum Features Works from the Permanent Collection
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn announces a
new
installation of work by Guido van der Werve (Dutch, b. Papendrecht,
Netherlands,
1977) and Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b. Tokyo, 1948). On view at the
Museum for
the first time is Van der Werv…