Curators in Conversation: Lynne Cooke, Rob Weiner, and Evelyn Hankins

Hirshhorn Plaza

Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square³, Dia Center for the Arts, 548 West 22nd Street, New York City. September 13, 1998—June 13, 1999. © Robert Irwin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thibault Jeanson. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York

Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square³, Dia Center for the Arts, 548 West 22nd Street, New York City. September 13, 1998—June 13, 1999. © Robert Irwin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thibault Jeanson. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York

Curators in Conversation: Lynne Cooke, Rob Weiner, and Evelyn Hankins
Monday, April 18
6:30 pm, Ring Auditorium

National Gallery of Art Senior Curator Lynne Cooke, Chinati Foundation Associate Director Rob Weiner, and Hirshhorn Curator Evelyn Hankins discuss major site-conditioned projects by Robert Irwin. In April the Hirshhorn will be exhibiting a historical survey of Irwin’s work from the 1960s, along with a new scrim installation created in response to the Museum’s distinctive architecture; in June 2015 Dia:Beacon opened a reconfiguration of Irwin’s seminal installation Excursus: Homage to the Square³; and this summer the Chinati Foundation will open a monumental Irwin installation that has been in development since 1999. The confluence of these three projects offers an opportunity to consider the uniquely multifaceted nature of Irwin’s conditional practice.