Gallery Experiences

From top to bottom: Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995/2009; Colored Vases, 2007-2010. Installation view of Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 2012. Photo: Cathy Carver.

Hirshhorn staff and outside experts discuss selections from current and upcoming exhibitions, as well as works from the permanent collection. Groups meet at the Information Desk in the Hirshhorn Lobby.

• Friday Gallery Talk: Evelyn Hankins
• Gallery Talk: Kelly Towles with Jasper Wong
• Friday Gallery Talk: Stéphane Aquin
• Friday Gallery Talk: Abigail McEwen on Cuban Art
• Friday Gallery Talk: Orchid Installation
• Friday Gallery Talk: Annette Polan
• Friday Gallery Talk: Mika Yoshitake on Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkin
• Friday Gallery Talk: Orchid Photography
• Friday Gallery Talk: Paul Ceruzzi
• Gallery Talk: Woman in E
• Friday Gallery Talk: Orchid 101
• Friday Gallery Talk: Woman in E
• Friday Gallery Talk: Vanessa Badré
• Gallery Talk: Alec MacKaye
• Gallery Talk: Nancy Snider
• Gallery Talk: Reynier Leyva Novo
• Friday Gallery Talk: Dr. Michael Austin
• Friday Gallery Talk: Leila Hasham
• Friday Gallery Talk: Carlene Stephens
• Friday Gallery Talk: Gwynne Ryan on Senga Nengudi
• Friday Gallery Talk: JD Talasek on Science and Robert Irwin
• Friday Gallery Talk: Danielle O’Steen
• Friday Gallery Talk: Stéphane Aquin on Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree for Washington
• Gallery Talk: Tadeusz Zawidzki with Linn Meyers
• Friday Gallery Talk: Susan Lake on Robert Irwin
• Friday Gallery Talk: Evelyn Hankins on Close Looking: Discs
• Friday Gallery Talk: Cody Coltharp
• Friday Gallery Talk: Evelyn Hankins on Close Looking: Robert Irwin’s Dot Paintings
• Friday Gallery Talk: Linn Meyers
• Friday Gallery Talk: Evelyn Hankins on Close Looking: Robert Irwin’s Line Paintings
• Friday Gallery Talk: Annette Polan on Ways of Seeing
• Friday Gallery Talk: Gianni Jetzer on Suspended Animation
• Friday Gallery Talk: Jonathan Monaghan on “Suspended Animation”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Betsy Johnson on Susan Philipsz’s “Part File Score”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Shana Lutker
• Friday Gallery Talk: Robert Lehrman on Joseph Cornell
• Friday Gallery Talk: Sue Frank
• Friday Gallery Talk: Mika Yoshitake
• Friday Gallery Talk: Bibiana Obler on Shana Lutker: Le “NEW” Monocle, Chapters 1–3
• Friday Gallery Talk: Valerie Fletcher on Art as Plaything
• Friday Gallery Talk: Jeff Herrity
• Friday Gallery Talk: Robert Lehrman on Joseph Cornell
• Friday Gallery Talk: Renato Miracco on “Le Onde: Waves of Italian Influence (1914–1971)”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Public Programs Coordinator Amy Bower On Jasper Johns’ Untitled
• Friday Gallery Talk: Conservation Interns on the Sculpture Garden
• Friday Gallery Talk: Gwynne Ryan on Janine Antoni’s Lick and Lather

• Friday Gallery Talk: Kelly Gordon and Keijo Karjalainen on Black Box: Risto-Pekka Blom
• Friday Gallery Talk: Philip Brookman on Digital Media in Shirin Neshat: Facing History
• Friday Gallery Talk: Carol Huh on Shirin Neshat: Facing History
• Video: Friday Gallery Talk: Kenjiro Okazaki
• Friday Gallery Talk: Melissa Ho on Shirin Neshat: Facing History
• Friday Gallery Talk: Michael Vetter on Kiepenkerl
• Friday Gallery Talk: Kelly Gordon on Days Of Endless Time
• Friday Gallery Talk: Kenjiro Okazaki
• Friday Gallery Talk: Michael Vetter on Lucian Freud
• Friday Gallery Talk: Melissa Ho on At The Hub Of Things: New Views Of The Collection
• Friday Gallery Talk: Evelyn Hankins on Dan Flavin
• Friday Gallery Talk: Evelyn Hankins on Lawrence Weiner
• Friday Gallery Talk: “Salvatore Scarpitta: Traveler” Exhibition Tour
• Friday Gallery Talk: Assistant curator Mika Yoshitake and artists discuss “Days of Endless Time”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Jae Ko discusses her sculpture “Untitled (JK 103),” 1999-2000
• Friday Gallery Talk: Salvatore Scarpitta exhibition tour
• Friday Gallery Talk: Theodore Prescott on Salvatore Scarpitta
• Friday Gallery Talk: Mike Osborne discusses Sitebound
• Friday Gallery Talk: Assistant curator Mika Yoshitake gives a tour of “Gravity’s Edge”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Kelly Gordon on Gordon Matta-Clark
• Interim Director Kerry Brougher leads a tour of Damage Control
• Friday Gallery Talk: Joyce Bedi on Alexander Calder
• Friday Gallery Talk: Stephen Petersen on Jean Tinguely
• Friday Gallery Talk: Mark Cameron Boyd on Ellsworth Kelly
• Friday Gallery Talk: Jayme McLellan on Dan Graham
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist Gerco de Ruijter on his video work “CROPS”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Ryan Hill discusses the Artist in Residency Program
• Friday Gallery Talk: Peter Bottger on Auguste Rodin
• Friday Gallery Talk: Steven O’Banion on Henry Moore
• Friday Gallery Talk: Michel Banabila, sound composer for Gerco de Ruijter’s “CROPS,” performs an ambient music set
• Friday Gallery Talk: Matthew Barton on “Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Patrick Loughney on Bruce Conner’s “Report”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Curatorial intern Deirdre Smith discusses Sol LeWitt
• Friday Gallery Talk: Screening of Artist Interview: Ann Hamilton’s “palimpsest”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn conservation staff discuss challenges in the upkeep of outdoor sculpture
• Friday Gallery Talk: Oberlin College visiting professor Katherine Markoski on Robert Rauschenberg’s “Dam” in “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn exhibits specialist Larissa Raddell on Eva Hesse’s “Vertiginous Detour” in “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Georgetown University Keyser Family Professor of Art History, Modern Art, Elizabeth Prelinger, on Damien Hirst in “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn exhibits specialist Scott Larson discusses interpreting the installation artist’s intention in “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn assistant curator Melissa Ho discusses Salvatore Scarpitta’s “Snowshoe Sled” in “Over Under Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn assistant curator Mika Yoshitake discusses her new installation of permanent collection works on the second floor
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn writer and editor Glenn Dixon on Stan Brakhage’s “Mothlight” in “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn associate curator Evelyn Hankins on “Directions: Jennie C. Jones”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Milena Kalinovska discusses Jeff Koons’s “Kiepenkerl”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Collector and Hirshhorn trustee Robert Lehrman on Joseph Cornell in “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: WPFW 89.3 FM jazz host and Georgetown University adjunct professor Rusty Hassan on “Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn associate curator Evelyn Hankins on “Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance”
• Friday Gallery Talk: American Parkour founders M2 and Travis Graves discuss DEMOCRACIA’s “Ser y Durar” [To Be and To Last]
• Friday Gallery Talk: Dan Steinhilber discusses his work “Untitled” in “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Georgetown University Gallery Director and Professor Evan Reed discusses George Tooker’s “The Letter Box” in “Out of the Ordinary”
• Friday Gallery Talk: National Portrait Gallery historian David Ward discusses Yasumasa Morimura’s “Self Portrait (Actress)/After Marlene Dietrich 2” in Out of the Ordinary
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn’s Gwynne Ryan discusses conservation issues surrounding Ann Hamilton’s “palimpsest” in “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Associate curator Evelyn Hankins on “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Director of Public Programs and Education Milena Kalinovska discusses Jiri Kolar’s works in “Over, Under, Next”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Elizabeth Prelinger, Keyser Family Professor of Art History at Georgetown University, discusses “Display Stand with Madonnas” in “Out of the Ordinary”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Collector Manuel de Santaren discusses Jaime Davidovich’s video work
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn writer and editor Glenn Dixon on Richard Artschwager’s “Two Indentations” in “Out of the Ordinary”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Tim Doud, American University Associate Professor of Studio Art, on Nikki S. Lee in “Out of the Ordinary”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Assistant Curator Melissa Ho presents a walkthrough of “Out of the Ordinary”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Curatorial Assistant Katherine Markoski discusses Jean Dubuffet’s “Limbour as a Crustacean”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn Exhibition Coordinator Larissa Raddell discusses the installation process of “Ai Weiwei: According to What?”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn interpretive guide Janet Hong discusses Ai Weiwei’s photo installations “Provisional Landscapes” and “Beijing’s 2008 Olympic Stadium”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Namiko Kunimoto, assistant professor of art at American University, discusses a work from Ai Weiwei: According to What?
• Friday Gallery Talk: Melissa Front discusses logistical challenges surrounding three works in Ai Weiwei: According to What?
• Friday Gallery Talk: Beth Skirkanich and Melissa Ho discuss the installation of Barbara Kruger’s “Belief + Doubt”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Yana Sakellion discusses DEMOCRACIA’s “Ser y Durar”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn interpretive guide Janina Anderson discusses Ai Weiwei’s “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn interpretive guide Remina Greenfield discusses Ai Weiwei’s “Straight”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Yana Sakellion on Antonio Rovaldi’s video work “Opening Day”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Michelle C. Wang on ceramic pieces in Ai Weiwei: According to What?
• Friday Gallery Talk: DEMOCRACIA will discuss their work “Ser y Durar”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Assistant Curator Melissa Ho Discusses Barbara Kruger’s “Belief+Doubt”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Associate Curator Evelyn Hankins discusses Gerhard Richter’s “Sanctuary”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Assistant Curator Mika Yoshitake on Ai Weiwei’s “Kippe,” 2006
• Friday Gallery Talk: Chief Curator Kerry Brougher on Ai Weiwei’s “Cube Light,” 2008
• Friday Gallery Talk: Jeroen Eisinga
• Exhibition Tour with Mika Yoshitake and Carol Huh
• Ai Weiwei: According to What? Exhibition Walk-through
• Friday Gallery Talk: Curators Melissa Ho and Mika Yoshitake on “Dark Matters: Selections from the Collection”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Jacquelyn D. Serwer, chief curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, on Jacob Lawrence
• Friday Gallery Talk: Director of Public Programs and Education Milena Kalinovska on Constantin Brancusi
• Friday Gallery Talk: Amanda Jirón-Murphy, educator at the Phillips Collection and independent curator on “Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space”
• Exhibition Tour with Valerie Fletcher
• Friday Gallery Talk: Assistant curator Melissa Ho on Morris Louis’s Charred Journal: Firewritten I, 1951
• Friday Gallery Talk: Dean Kessman, Chair of GWU’s Department of Art & Art History, on James Welling
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn assistant curator Mika Yoshitake on Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” 2010
• Exhibition walkthrough of Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Artist on Artist Gallery Talk: Evan Holloway
• Friday Gallery Talk: Histories and Mysteries of the Hirshhorn
• Friday Gallery Talks: Russell Ferguson on Wolfgang Tillmans
• Friday Gallery Talks: Domonic Molon on Wolfgang Tillmans
• Friday Gallery Talks: Jeffrey Grove on “Morris Louis”
• Friday Gallery Talks: Anne Ellegood on “Currents”
• Friday Gallery Talks: In Conversation with Nene Humphrey
• Friday Gallery Talks: In Conversation with Ghada Amer
• Friday Gallery Talks: Artist Alyson Shotz and curator Anne Ellegood
• Friday Gallery Talk: Noelle Tan
• Friday Gallery Talk: Randall Packer on Gary Hill
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist Athena Tacha on Mona Hatoum’s “Entrail Carpet”
• Friday Gallery Talk: National Gallery’s Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Molly Donovan on Kimsooja
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist Bill Christenberry on Lee Friedlander
• Friday Gallery Talk: Curator Anne Ellegood on The Cinema Effect: Realisms
• Friday Gallery Talk: Arts writer Glenn Dixon on Bruce Nauman
• Friday Gallery Talk: Arts writer Kriston Capps on Ed Ruscha
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist and Professor Tim Spelios on Bruce Nauman
• Friday Gallery Talk: Howard Singerman on Richard Nonas
• Exhibition Walkthrough of “Strange Bodies”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Grey Gundaker on Lucas Samaras
• Friday Gallery Talk: Robert Lehrman on Strange Bodies
• Friday Gallery Talk: Colby Caldwell on Walead Beshty
• Friday Gallery Talk: Video artist Kathryn Cornelius on Black Box: Guido van der Werve
• Friday Gallery Talk: Virginia Shore on Giacometti
• Friday Gallery Talk: DC-area artist Erik Sandberg on Yinka Shonibare
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist David Page on Nick Cave’s “Soundsuit”
• Exhibition Walkthrough of “Anne Truitt”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Air and Space curator Dominic Pisano on Roszak’s “Ascension”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Emory University art historian James Meyer on “Anne Truitt”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Tatiana Flores on Rafael Jesús Soto
• Friday Gallery Talk: Larry Bird, Senior Curator at National Museum of American History, on James Rosenquist
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist and Corcoran College professor Mark Cameron Boyd on Allen Ruppersberg
• Josef Albers walkthrough with curator Valerie Fletcher
• Friday Gallery Talk: Glenn Dixon on Phoebe Greenberg
• The Many Faces of Yves gallery event
• Friday Gallery Talk: Professor Jerrold Levinson on Yves Klein
• Friday Gallery Talk: Daniel Moquay on Yves Klein
• Friday Gallery Talk: Curator Evelyn Hankins on Fred Sandback
• Friday Gallery Talk: Christina Schepelmann on Guillermo Kuitca
• Friday Gallery Talk: Merry A. Foresta on “Directions: Cyprien Gaillard and Mario Garcia Torres”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Conservator Clarke Bedford on “ColorForms”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Curatorial research assistant Javier Ortega-Alverez on the collection
• Friday Gallery Talk: Curatorial assistant Jessica Beck on Andy Warhol
• Friday Gallery Talk: Joshua Shannon, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park, on “Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist Patrick McDonough on “Blinky Palermo”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist/musician Robin Rose on Blinky Palermo
• Walk-through of “Blinky Palermo” with exhibition curator Lynne Cooke
• Friday Gallery Talk: Lee Talbot, Associate Curator at the Textile Museum, on “Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Assistant Curator Melissa Ho on Frank Stella
• Friday Gallery Talk: National Geographic travel writer Andrew Evans on Hamish Fulton