Program Recordings

Browse through the Hirshhorn’s selection of lectures and talks including Friday Gallery Talks, Meet the Artists, and Exhibition Walk-throughs.

• Hirshhorn/AM: Brutalist DC
• Talk and Book Signing: Claire Evans: Broad Band
• Artist Talk: Sean Scully
• Artist Talk: Idris Khan
• 2018 James T. Demetrion Lecture: Joseph Kosuth
• Mark Bradford: Meet the Artist

• Love is the Message: An Evening with Arthur Jafa
• Vik Muniz: Meet the Artist
• Linn Meyers: Meet the Artist
• Friday Gallery Talk: Linn Meyers
• Irving Blum and The Cool School
• Lawrence Weschler: Seeing is Remembering
• Susan Philipsz: Meet the Artist
• 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
• Beyond Surrealist Sculpture
• Friday Gallery Talk: Robert Lehrman on Joseph Cornell
• Film: Pure Man Ray
• Friday Gallery Talk: Sue Frank
• Meet the Artist: Shana Lutker
• 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)”
• Lunch Bytes: On Hype-cycles, Post-internet, And How The Digital Became Fashionable
• Friday Gallery Talk: Michael Vetter on Kiepenkerl
• Meet the Artist: Julie Mehretu
• Curators in Conversation: Melissa Chiu and James T. Demetrion
• 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 Lawrence Weiner
• Meet the Artist: Spencer Finch
• 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
• Days of Endless Time: In Conversation with Lapham’s Quarterly
• Meet the Artist: Charles Simonds
• Curators In Conversation: 33 Artists In 3 Acts
• Scarpitta In Context: Germano Celant and Paul Schimmel In Conversation
• 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”
• Meet the Artist: Jeremy Deller
• Meet the Artist: Christian Marclay
• Curators in Conversation
• In Conversation: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
• Damage Control Symposium Podcast
• Interim Director Kerry Brougher leads a tour of Damage Control
• Friday Gallery Talk: Mark Cameron Boyd on Ellsworth Kelly
• Meet the Artist: Jake Chapman
• Damage Control Symposium
• 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
• Meet the Artist: Kim Schoenstadt
• 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: Hirshhorn conservation staff discuss challenges in the upkeep of outdoor sculpture
• 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 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: Collector and Hirshhorn trustee Robert Lehrman on Joseph Cornell in “Over, Under, Next”
• Meet the Artist: Jennie C. Jones with Jason Moran
• Meet the Artist: Ann Hamilton
• Meet the Artist: Kota Ezawa
• 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: Dan Steinhilber discusses his work “Untitled” in “Over, Under, Next”
• ARTLAB+ Presents: Teen’s Artistic Response to Barbara Kruger, “Belief+Doubt,” 2012
• Friday Gallery Talk: Georgetown University Gallery Director and Professor Evan Reed discusses George Tooker’s “The Letter Box” in “Out of the Ordinary”
• Meet the Artist: Flatform
• Meet the Artist: Christo
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn’s Gwynne Ryan discusses conservation issues surrounding Ann Hamilton’s “palimpsest” in “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: 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: 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: 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?
• Meet the Artist: Barbara Kruger
• Friday Gallery Talk: DEMOCRACIA will discuss their work “Ser y Durar”
• Meet the Artist: DEMOCRACIA
• Meet the Artist: Alison Klayman
• 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
• Meet the Artist: Vito Acconci
• Panel Discussion: Art and Social Change
• Ai Weiwei: According to What? Exhibition Walk-through
• Meet the Artist: Wayne Gonzales
• 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
• Lecture: Curators Yasmil Raymond and Glenn O’Brien discuss Andy Warhol’s “In the Shadows”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Director of Public Programs and Education Milena Kalinovska on Constantin Brancusi
• Panel Discussion: Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space
• 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
• Symposium: Excavation, Accumulation and Preservation in the African Landscape
• Patrick Warfield on Doug Aitken’s “SONG 1,” 2012
• Friday Gallery Talk: Assistant curator Melissa Ho on Morris Louis’s Charred Journal: Firewritten I, 1951
• Meet the Artist: Roni Horn
• Symposium: Liquid Architecture and the Culture of Modification
• Symposium: Music and Space
• Friday Gallery Talk: Hirshhorn assistant curator Mika Yoshitake on Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” 2010
• Black Box Series: Related Podcasts
• Meet the Artist: Lorna Simpson
• Exhibition walkthrough of Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Meet the Artist: Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Hiroshi Sugimoto and David Elliott
• A Conversation with Hiraki Sawa
• Meet the Artist: Hiraki Sawa
• Sugimoto’s Vision: A special lecture by Michael Fried
• Hirshhorn After Hours Preview: Richard Chartier
• A Conversation with Oliver Herring
• In Conversation: ArtAngel
• A Conversation with Marco Maggi
• Excerpts from Meet the Artist: Jonas Mekas
• Curators Lecture: “Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth”
• A Conversation with John Baldessari
• A Conversation with Jesper Just
• Meet the Artist: John Baldessari
• Meet the Artist: Terry Gilliam’s Introduction to “Tideland”
• Meet the Artist: Terry Gilliam “Tideland” Q&A
• In Conversation: The Current State of Sculpture
• Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari for Teens
• Artist on Artist Gallery Talk: Evan Holloway
• Anne Ellegood and Ryan Hill on The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas
• Artists’ Voices: Martin Kersels
• Artists’ Voices: Special After Hours Edition with Virgil Marti and Pae White
• Friday Gallery Talk: Histories and Mysteries of the Hirshhorn
• A Conversation with Yoko Ono
• Friday Gallery Talks: Russell Ferguson on Wolfgang Tillmans
• A Conversation with Takeshi Murata
• Friday Gallery Talks: Domonic Molon on Wolfgang Tillmans
• Meet the Artist: Byron Kim
• After Hours: Your reactions to Wolfgang Tillmans
• Vaclav Havel on Jiri Kolar
• Diane Upright on Morris Louis
• Friday Gallery Talks: Jeffrey Grove on “Morris Louis”
• Artists’ Voices: Pablo Helguera on “The Way Things Go”
• 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
• Meet the Artist: Wangechi Mutu
• Friday Gallery Talk: Noelle Tan
• A Conversation with Siebren Versteeg
• Meet the Artist: Tony Oursler
• Kerry Brougher on “The Cinema Effect”
• A Conversation with Carolee Schneeman
• A Conversation with Michael Bell-Smith
• In Conversation: Kelly Richardson
• A Conversation with Amy Sillman
• Friday Gallery Talk: Randall Packer on Gary Hill
• Meet the Artist: Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler
• A Conversation with Mary Coble
• Giovanna Chesler on Christoph Girardet’s “Release”
• Andy Grunberg on Currents: Recent Acquisitions
• Film Professionals on Farocki’s “Workers Leaving a Factory”
• Associate Curator Evelyn Hankins on Alexander Calder
• Dietrich Neumann on the Illuminated Building
• Joanne Gold and J. David Miller on “The Cinema Effect Part I: Dreams”
• Sleep Specialist Danny Lewin on Warhol’s “Sleep” in “The Cinema Effect Part I: Dreams”
• 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
• Director of Public Programs Milena Kalinovska on Tim Rollins + K.O.S.
• Curatorial Assistant Al Miner discusses Dan Graham’s Sculpture Garden commission
• In Conversation: Sam Durant
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist Bill Christenberry on Lee Friedlander
• A Conversation with Runa Islam
• Meet the Artist: Isaac Julien
• Meet the Artist: Candice Breitz
• Friday Gallery Talk: Curator Anne Ellegood on The Cinema Effect: Realisms
• A Conversation with Matthew Buckingham
• In Conversation: Rodney McMillian
• Interactive Artist Nell Breyer on Christian Jankowksi
• Liz Glover on Julian Rosefeldt’s “Lonely Planet”
• Friday Gallery Talk: Arts writer Glenn Dixon on Bruce Nauman
• Friday Gallery Talk: Arts writer Kriston Capps on Ed Ruscha
• A Conversation with Robert Barry
• A Conversation with Two Sol LeWitt draftsmen
• A Conversation with Dr. Giuseppe Panza
• Meet the Artist: Joseph Kosuth
• Lecture: David Wilson on The Museum as Art
• In Conversation: German-based artist and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow Bjorn Dahlem
• Meet the Artist: Lawrence Weiner
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist and Professor Tim Spelios on Bruce Nauman
• A Conversation with Ori Gersht
• Friday Gallery Talk: Howard Singerman on Richard Nonas
• Exhibition Walkthrough of “Strange Bodies”
• Strange Bodies Preview
• Friday Gallery Talk: Grey Gundaker on Lucas Samaras
• Friday Gallery Talk: Robert Lehrman on Strange Bodies
• Meet the Artist: Ori Gersht
• Lecture: Donald Kuspit on Louise Bourgeois
• Valerie Fletcher on Louise Bourgeois: The Past as Present
• In Conversation: Evelyn Hankins and Walead Beshty
• Meet the Artist: Gary Simmons
• Friday Gallery Talk: Colby Caldwell on Walead Beshty
• Friday Gallery Talk: Video artist Kathryn Cornelius on Black Box: Guido van der Werve
• In Conversation: Kristen Hileman and Blake Gopnik: Art in the Present
• Friday Gallery Talk: Virginia Shore on Giacometti
• Friday Gallery Talk: DC-area artist Erik Sandberg on Yinka Shonibare
• In Conversation: Candice Lin and Ryan Hill
• In Conversation with Jennifer Wen Ma and Ryan Hill
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist David Page on Nick Cave’s “Soundsuit”
• Meet the Artist: Guido van der Werve
• In Conversation: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow Alison Taylor
• Remembering Things Past: A Conversation Celebrating Anne Truitt
• Exhibition Walkthrough of “Anne Truitt”
• Meet the Artist: Brian Jungen
• 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
• Meet the Artist: Yinka Shonibare MBE
• Friday Gallery Talk: Larry Bird, Senior Curator at National Museum of American History, on James Rosenquist
• Lecture with Kristen Hileman: Arriving at an Art Historical Anne Truitt
• 2009 Interpretive Guides share their experience
• Smithsonian Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Art Conservation
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist and Corcoran College professor Mark Cameron Boyd on Allen Ruppersberg
• Meet the Artist: Phoebe Greenberg
• A Conversation with Henrique Oliveira
• Josef Albers walkthrough with curator Valerie Fletcher
• Friday Gallery Talk: Glenn Dixon on Phoebe Greenberg
• Meet the Artist: John Gerrard
• Valerie Fletcher on Maximum Effect from Minimum Means: Josef Albers
• In Conversation: Transformer’s FRAMEWORK Panel #12: Radical Art: Artistic Actions within the Public Sphere
• In Conversation: Linn Meyers and Carlene Stephens
• The Many Faces of Yves gallery event
• In Conversation: Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, on vision, art, and the biology of seeing
• In Conversation: Rotraut Klein-Moquay and Kerry Brougher
• Friday Gallery Talk: Professor Jerrold Levinson on Yves Klein
• Friday Gallery Talk: Daniel Moquay on Yves Klein
• Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow Richard Chartier discusses the Grand Tonometer with Curator of Physical Sciences Steven Turner from the National Museum of American History
• Friday Gallery Talk: Curator Evelyn Hankins on Fred Sandback
• In Conversation: Semiconductor
• Meet the Artist: Guillermo Kuitca
• Meet the Artists: Cyprien Gaillard and Mario Garcia Torres
• Susan Lake on “Willem de Kooning: The Artist’s Materials”
• 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”
• Andreas Huyssen: Guillermo Kuitca: Painter of Space
• 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”
• A Conversation with Marina Abramovic
• Meet the Artist: Hans Op de Beeck
• Friday Gallery Talk: Artist/musician Robin Rose on Blinky Palermo
• Walk-through of “Blinky Palermo” with exhibition curator Lynne Cooke
• Meet the Artist: Grazia Toderi
• 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
• Lecture: Art historian Suzanne Hudson on Blinky Palermo
• Meet the Artist: Julian Schnabel
• Dialogues in Venice with Emma Williams, Exhibitions Organizer at the British Council on Mike Nelson’s exhibition at the British Pavilion
• Dialogues in Venice with Jean-Hubert Martin, curator of French Pavilion exhibition, Christian Boltanski’s “Chance”
• Dialogues in Venice with Katerina Gregos, curator of the Danish Pavilion exhibition “Speech Matters”
• Dialogues in Venice with Gary Garrels, SFMoMA Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture
• Dialogues in Venice with The Daily Beast/Newsweek art critic Blake Gopnik
• Dialogues in Venice with Japanese Pavilion artist Tabaimo
• Dialogues in Venice with US Pavilion Artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
• Dialogues in Venice with augmented reality artist Sander Veenhof
• Forum: The Role of Contemporary Art Museums in the 21st Century
• Friday Gallery Talk: National Geographic travel writer Andrew Evans on Hamish Fulton
• Fragments in Time and Space with Michael Fried
• Talking About Andy: Hal Foster
• Meet the Artist: Nira Pereg
• A Conversation with Antony Gormley
• Talking About Andy: Kara Walker
• 2011 James T. Demetrion Lecture: Marina Abramovic
• 2010 James T. Demetrion Lecture: Simon Schama on The Beast in Contemporary Art
• 2007 James T. Demetrion Lecture
• 2006 James T. Demetrion lecture