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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the Smithsonian Institution.
Hirshhorn went to work as an office boy on Wall Street at age 14. Three years later, in 1916, he became a stockbroker and earned $168,000 that year. [3] A shrewd investor, he sold off his Wall Street investments two months before the collapse of 1929, realizing $4 million in cash. [3] Hirshhorn made his fortune in the mining and oil business.
Melissa Chiu (born 1972) is an Australian museum director, curator and author, and the director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. She is a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, [1] the American Alliance of Museums, and the Museum Association of New York. [2] She is also on the founding advisory ...
Smithsonian museums on the National Mall: 1 - National Museum of African American History and Culture. 2 - National Museum of American History 3 - National Museum of Natural History 4 - Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) 5 - Freer Gallery of Art 6 - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 7 - National Museum of African Art 8 - Arts and Industries ...
Location. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States. Coordinates. 38°53′16.4″N 77°1′20.99″W. / 38.887889°N 77.0224972°W / 38.887889; -77.0224972. Owner. Smithsonian Institution. Needle Tower is a public artwork by American sculptor Kenneth Snelson located outside of the Hirshhorn Museum and ...
Owner. Smithsonian Institution. Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) is a sculpture by American artist Mark di Suvero. It is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C., United States. [1] The sculpture is named after poet Marianne Moore 's "What Are Years". [2]
The original Antipodes is a 6-foot high version of the Hirshhorn sculpture that was created in 1992 which was purchased by art collectors Gilbert and Ann Kinney. The small piece was displayed on the terrace of the Kinney home and upon moving the couple donated the piece to the Hirshhorn. In 1997 the Neuberger Museum of Art commissioned a large ...
February 29, 2020 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's ARTLAB+; 10 AM – 4 PM EDT; NOTE: ARTLAB+ is located in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden at Jefferson Drive, SW and 7th St, SW. The doors are under the stairs bordering Jefferson Drive, SW. The Hirshhorn's Dolcezza Cafe, located in the lobby of the museum, opens at 10 am.