Immediately after the 1969 groundbreaking for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Ada Louise Huxtable, then architecture critic for the New York Times, described the pla ...

Of all the museums that make up the Smithsonian Institution, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the one that speaks most directly to the times in which we live. If the other museums seek to ...

Discover the groundbreaking exhibition 'Love Queen' by Adam Pendleton at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Explore the ...

Doug Aitken first visited the Hirshhorn Museum two years ago, at dusk. “I arrived in a taxi,” the artist remembers. “I opened the door. I’d seen the Hirshhorn from afar, but when I saw it ...

A Rembrandt in Denver. A Botticelli in Flint, Michigan. A Rothko in Boise. An O’Keeffe in Anchorage. Masterpieces from the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. will soon be on ...

Just off the National Mall is a museum known for its contemporary art & design, known as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A 1966 act of Congress called for establishing a national ...

The new building will accommodate roughly a fourth of the 384 items currently in the museum’s collection. A series of seven abstract paintings by noted U.S. artist Mark Rothko (1903-1970), the ...

Some of the works are borrowed from the National Gallery of Art’s “Across the Nation” initiative, which loans artworks from ...