An Evening with Laurie Anderson
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General Passes have all been claimed. The walk-up line opens at 5PM and we will do our best to seat as many people as possible.
An Evening with Laurie Anderson has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 6:30 pm on our outdoor Plaza.
- If you are a pass-holder for Oct. 6: We’ll hold your place. An email via E-tix will hit your inbox with updated passes. If you are unable to attend, please email HirshhornExperience@si.edu so we can reallocate.
- If you were planning to join our walk-up line: Take heart. Our plaza is expansive. We’ll do our best to accommodate as many guests as possible.
- If you are a VIP Pass-Holder for Oct. 6: Our Advancement department will reach out directly with details. We look forward to rescheduling your encounter with the artist. Thank you for your support.
Grammy Award-winning musician and artist Laurie Anderson returns to the Hirshhorn Plaza for an intimate one-night only performance with composer and jazz musician Doug Wieselman. Anderson’s immersive, site-specific installation Four Talks, currently on view at the Museum, was a highlight of her recent exhibition Laurie Anderson: The Weather and showcases the artist’s multifaceted artistic practice.
Anderson will also share insights into her recent publication The Art of the Straight Line by Lou Reed, a compilation of Reed’s writings on Tai Chi, music, and meditation. Reed, Anderson’s life partner and husband, was a legendary musician, songwriter, and poet. Copies of The Art of the Straight Line will be available for purchase at the Hirshhorn bookstore prior to the program.
Laurie Anderson VIP Limited Edition Package
$2,500
VIP ticket buyers will be treated to an exclusive evening with Laurie Anderson, including two premium seats for the Hirshhorn’s performance, followed by a meet and greet with Laurie Anderson in her Four Talks installation. Ticket buyers will also receive a limited-edition box set (edition of 20) of Laurie Anderson: The Weather. Created as a celebration of the Hirshhorn’s groundbreaking exhibition of the same name, this box set features two signed and numbered prints (each in an edition of 20), along with a signed copy of the exhibitions, companion zine, and a vinyl recording—all bound in a four-panel folio.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
A Grammy Award-winning musician, performer, writer, and artist, Laurie Anderson has an international reputation as an artist who combines the traditions of the avant-garde with popular culture. Her works combine a variety of media, including performance, music, poetry, sculpture, opera, anthropological investigations, and linguistic games, to elicit emotional reactions. She has released seven albums for Warner Brothers, including Big Science (1982), featuring the song “O Superman,” which rose to No. 2 on the British pop charts. As a visual artist, Anderson has exhibited her work at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Guggenheim Museum, Soho; and other venues. The Hirshhorn presented her largest survey exhibition to date, Laurie Anderson: The Weather, from 2021-2022.
Doug Wieselman is a musician and composer who has also worked in theater, dance, and film. In addition to Laurie Anderson, he has played and arranged music for diverse artists including Antony and the Johnsons, CocoRosie, Jerome Robbins, Robert Woodruff, and Hal Willner. He has co-led Kamikaze Ground Crew for over 30 years; leads his trio, Trio S, with ‘cellist Jane Scarpantoni and drummer Kenny Wollesen; and has released a solo clarinet record, From Water, based on melodies he has heard from bodies of water. He also was co-composer for the Nickelodeon children animated show The Backyardigans in association with Evan Lurie. Earlier this year he released a record, WA-Zoh, based on and inspired by bird songs.
Passes to “An Evening with Laurie Anderson” are distributed at no-cost by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and can not be sold.
Art Cart: Sound Party
Make some noise for a special Art Cart exploring sound art. Build noise-makers, and use your voice to create a collaborative sound sculpture as we prepare for the annual Sound Scene Festival, a 2-day event in partnership with DC Listening Lounge.
Find the Art Cart in the Museum Plaza to pick up your construction materials.
This project received support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool.
Do this at home! Explore the possibilities of sound! Make your own noisemaker, with a secret noise inside, and play a game of guessing with friends. Instructions here.
ABOUT THE ART CART
Want to make art inspired by your favorite Hirshhorn works on view? The Art Cart offers young artists a hands-on maker experience during their visit to the Hirshhorn. Each week’s Art Cart offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an artmaking activity to do at the Museum, and kids’ projects to extend the fun at home!
The Art Cart is free; no registration required. Drop in any Thursday between 10am–Noon.
Art Cart: Perform With Soft Sculptures
What materials can you think of that stretch and squish like skin? At this Art Cart, young artists will learn about artist Senga Nengudi’s soft sculptures and performance through movement, texture exploration, and art making.
Find the Art Cart on the Third Level and pick up your soft sculpture making materials and perform!
Dance and make at home! Create your own dancing soft sculpture with socks or nylons and pantry items. Instructions here.
ABOUT THE ART CART
Want to make art inspired by your favorite Hirshhorn works on view? The Art Cart offers young artists a hands-on maker experience during their visit to the Hirshhorn. Each week’s Art Cart offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an artmaking activity to do at the Museum, and kids projects to extend the fun at home!
The Art Cart is free; no registration required. Drop in any Thursday between 10am-12pm.
Stroller Parking is available in the Lobby and the Lower Level.
Art Cart: Invent an Instrument
Join us for a special Art Cart with the Washington Ballet! Make some noise with your self-made instrument! Investigate and play with sound. Then, make your own instrument inspired by artist Laurie Anderson. As a special collaboration with the Washington Ballet’s Dance for All, this Art Cart will include a dance workshop!
Find us on the Second Level.
Do this at home! Play a game inspired by Marcel Duchamp! Make your own noisemaker, with a secret noise inside. Create.
A makeshift noisemaker created from a toilet paper roll lies on a white surface. Much of the roll has been covered in a clear plastic, while a golden foil covers the lower half of the roll. Two pieces of white and red striped string hold the pieces together on either end of the roll. The roll is decorated in the middle with drawn on flowers and a forever Love stamp.
Until we can gather for Storytime again, the Art Cart offers young artists themed sets of materials. Each week’s Art Cart offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an art making activity to do at the Museum, and kids projects to extend the fun at home! The Art Cart is free, no registration required. Every Thursday, 10 am–12 pm
Stroller Parking is available on the Lower Level.
Help us stay safe and healthy! Review Smithsonian health and safety guidelines before your visit.
Art Cart: Dance with Drummer
Get moving at this week’s Art Cart! Young artists will look closely at Barry Flannigan’s sculpture of a happy hare called Drummer, imagine what kind of music the hare would make, and dance and drum to their own musical beats.
Find the Art Cart in the Sculpture Garden and make some noise! In case of inclement weather, check in the Museum Lobby for our indoor locations.
Do this at home! Explore sound experiments by artist Laurie Anderson, and then create your own sounds with different materials. Can you make cereal move without touching it? Can you make your voice travel? Can you feel a vibration? Create.
ABOUT THE ART CART
Want to make art inspired by your favorite Hirshhorn works on view? The Art Cart offers young artists a hands-on maker experience during their visit to the Hirshhorn. Each week’s Art Cart offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an artmaking activity to do at the Museum, and kids projects to extend the fun at home!
The Art Cart is free; no registration required. Drop in any Thursday between 10am-12pm.
Wheelchair accessible entrance to the Sculpture Garden is on the National Mall side of the Garden.
Stroller Parking is available.
