The 200,000-square-foot private art museum in Potomac is getting into the after-hours game to show off the work of abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly.
Brighton-based artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, known together as Semiconductor, have collaborated on what they call “digital noise and computer anarchy” since 1979. Their video Magnetic Movie was screened in the Hirshhorn’s Black Box video gallery in 2008 and is now part of the permanent collection. This year, they return to the Hirshhorn as recipients of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) and will screen three of their short films as part of Hirshhorn After Hours on Friday, October 29. DCist spoke with Semiconductor about their work.
Flickr user krisetya has been nailing it lately, and it was hard to resist this homage to Olga Viso, who will be stepping down as the Hirshhorn’s director in a few months. Click through to read his kind words, as well as the commenters who rightly call the photo, “Clean, fluid, and minimalist with a fantastic richness of color.” The Hirshhorn Museum is open every day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., or stop…
Olga Viso, who has served as director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden for two years, announced today she’ll be stepping down at the end of the year. Viso will be taking her experience and successes in running the Hirshhorn to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The expert on contemporary Latin American art began as an assistant curator at the museum 12 years ago, and quickly climbed the ladder as her skill…
FRIDAY: >> DCist Exposed opening reception, OBVS. 6:30 – 9:30 p.m., at Warehouse. >> If you’re looking for more hip art happenings afterward, head over to the Hirshhorn After Hours party, which goes until midnight. It’s a celebration of the opening of Virgil Marti and Pae White’s new site-specific installation in the Hirshhorn lobby, which is the latest in the museum’s Directions series. Ian Svenonius is spinning and it looks like there’ll be a number…
As you may have heard, one of the most beloved and, in our opinion, best bands ever to come out of the District, The Dismemberment Plan, are reuiniting next month for the sake of Callum Robbins. The overwhelming, fast sell out of the first show lead the guys to agree to a second night — April 27, which went on sale last night relatively under the radar — but openly enough to sell out pretty…
>> In case you missed today’s most bizarre news tidbit: National Symphony Orchestra oboist H. David Meyers awaits sentencing by a federal judge for his role in orchestrating (heh) a complex illegal sports gambling ring. Meyers’ story, which he’s peddling to newspapers through a publicist, is that he didn’t know what he was doing was illegal, and that he shouldn’t go to jail because his musical gift will suffer. Oboe he didn’t! [WaPo] >> Two…
WPAC is hosting the first of a three night experimental media series, titled After Effects, curated by local heavy Kathryn Cornelius. From 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Armand Hammer Auditorium, check out new video work from Jason Zimmerman, Chad Stayrook (a still from his everytime a scientist dies, a unicorn gets its horn is at right) and a live performance from videohippos at 8:20 p.m. Drink it In: It’s…
