Directions: Empire3
New Acquisitions: Flavin
New Acquisitions: Conner
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Black Box: Ali Kazma
Directions: Empire3

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space

February 23, 2012 to May 13, 2012

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space will open in February 2012.

Dark Matters

February 3, 2012 to May 31, 2012

Dark Matters brings together works from the Hirshhorn’s collection that draw upon the associations and implications of darkness.

Black Box: Ali Kazma

December 19, 2011 to April 2012

Ali Kazma (Turkish, b.

Directions: Empire3

November 10, 2011 to February 26, 2012

On May 1, 1931, at a dedication ceremony in Washington, D.C., President Herbert Hoover hit a button that symbolically turned on the lights of the Empire State Building in New York City.
Boccioni's Fist--Lines of Force II

Giacomo Balla

Boccioni's Fist--Lines of Force II

(1916-1917)/reconstructed 1956-1958/cast 1968

Bust of Diego

Alberto Giacometti

Bust of Diego

(1957)

Gyrostasis

Robert Smithson

Gyrostasis

(1968)

Kiepenkerl

Jeff Koons

Kiepenkerl

1987

Friday Gallery Talk: Curators Melissa Ho and Mika Yoshitake on "Dark Matters: Selections from the Collection"

February 3, 2012

Wayne Gonzales, Pentagon, 2004-2005

Friday Gallery Talk: DC-based artist Randall Packer on Directions: Empire³

February 10, 2012

Still from Wolfgang Staehle’s Empire 24/7, 1999–2004.

Friday Gallery Talk: Jacquelyn D. Serwer, chief curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, on Jacob Lawrence.

February 17, 2012

Jacob Lawrence, Cabinet Makers, 1946

Friday Gallery Talk: DC-based artist Samuel Scharf on "Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space".

February 24, 2012

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromosaturation, 1965, refabricated 2010.

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