The National Capital Planning Commission voted in favor of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto’s design, which will expand the garden’s entrance and increase accessibility along the National Mall.

Oh look, we have our very own Hiroshi Sugimoto. As you may have seen first-hand during his retrospective at the Hirshhorn last spring, Sugimoto got his start in photography by taking images of the exhibits at the Natural History Museum, turning them inexplicably into real-life scenes. Maybe Flickr user xtol7’s photo didn’t quite convince you that triceratops are roaming the D.C. area willy-nilly just waiting to be photographed, but it kind of makes you…

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…

To those readers who missed their Classical Music Agenda last week, apologies are in order. Your faithful chronicler was in Paris for the week and experiencing a general lack of Internet connectivity. Now I am back, and there a lot of concerts to tell you about. We may not emphasize this enough, but “classical music” does not mean only music that is old. In fact, living composers are still writing works that continue and modify…

>> Despite what we hear is a serious rash of over-dressed staffers at the Corcoran Gallery of Art running off to “dentist appointments” with updated résumés in hand after several high profile dismissals were announced earlier this month, there appear to be several good reasons to head down to the beleaguered museum. The first major retrospective of the work of Robert Bechtle, the San Francisco-based painter known for his photorealistic streetscapes, is up through June…

This post was written by DCist contributor Heather Goss. How can an artist capture the passage of time in a still photograph? That’s one of the questions acclaimed Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has been pursuing throughout his thirty-year career. Sugimoto, whose retrospective exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden opened last week, uses a minimalist technique in his photographs to highlight the perspective from which they are taken. His well-known “Theaters” series is a…

DCist will be at the Hirshhorn Museum and Scultpure Garden this Thurs. night at 7 p.m. (book signing starts at 6 p.m.) to hear celebrated Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto give an artist lecture about his new exhibition at the Museum, a retrospective of his 30-year career, which opens the same day. Sugimoto is well known for his attempts to convey a sense of time in his still photography, like in his Theatre series (5th Avenue…