In celebration of its 50th-anniversary season, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents “Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960" with work included by Aliza Nisenbaum. The exhibition, which exhibits its 208 artworks by 118 artists in chronological order, focuses on shifting cultural landscapes and transformative new currents.
" 'Revolutions' captures shifting cultural landscapes through the largely chronological presentation of 208 artworks in the museum’s permanent collection by 118 artists—including Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, Lee Krasner, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock—made during 100 turbulent and energetic years.
The exhibition includes contemporary work by 19 artists, such as Torkwase Dyson, Rashid Johnson, Annette Lemieux, Dyani White Hawk and Flora Yukhnovich, whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas and approaches that arose during these 100 years remain critical. Organized by Hirshhorn Associate Curator Marina Isgro and Assistant Curator Betsy Johnson, 'Revolutions' will fill the Museum’s second-floor outer-circle galleries from March 22, 2024, to April 20, 2025.
'Revolutions' spotlights the rush of art historical movements and genres that characterized the arc of Modernism and the ascendancy of abstraction, notably through the work of artists interested in engaging the mind, not just the eye. This breadth was evident in Joseph Hirshhorn’s founding gifts to the Museum. An industrialist, collector, and philanthropist, Hirshhorn donated nearly 6,000 works—including a significant number of sculptures—in anticipation of the Museum’s opening on October 4, 1974, and 6,400 more upon his death in 1981. Together these gifts constitute one of the most important collections of postwar American and European art in the world. Today, the Hirshhorn collection comprises more than 13,130 artworks. "
- Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum
March 22, 2024 - April 20, 2025
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Pictured:
75 x 95 inches
(190.5 x 241.3 cm)
