Art
on view now
Guido van der Werve and Hiroshi Sugimoto
Third Level
On view at the Museum for the first time is Van der Werve's "Nummer Negen (#9) The Day I Didn't Turn with the World" (2007), a recent acquisition, which is paired with five works from Sugimoto's "Seascapes" series. Sugimoto's works are drawn from a grouping acquired for the Museum by The Glenstone Foundation on the occasion of the artist's 2005-2006 retrospective, co-organized by the Hirshhorn. Seen together, the pieces quietly create synergy, harmoniously exploring concepts of time, space and solitude, while highlighting the formal and conceptual interplay between cinema and photography.
in depth
Willem de Kooning's sixty-year career began in his native Holland, where he studied fine and applied arts at the Rotterdam Academy.
staff picks
Jennifer's Pick - Joseph Cornell
Jennifer's Pick - Damien Hirst
collection highlights
Podcast on Jesús Rafael Soto
Listen to the podcast of this Friday Gallery Talk with Tatiana Flores, Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers University specializing in Latin American and contemporary art, on Jesús Rafael Soto's "Two Volumes in the Virtual," 1968, from the Hirshhorn's collection.
exhibition highlights
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers
One of the last century’s most influential artists, Yves Klein (French, b. Nice, 1928; d. Paris, 1962) took the European art scene by storm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 34. Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States in nearly 30 years. The exhibition will include examples from all of Klein’s major series, including his Anthropometries, Cosmogonies, fire paintings, planetary reliefs, and blue monochromes, as well as selections of his lesser-known gold and pink monochromes, body and sponge reliefs, “air architecture,” and immaterial works. The installation will also foreground the artist’s process and conceptual projects through a range of ephemera, including sketches, photographs, letters, and writings.
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