Guided Tour: Abstract and Figurative, American Painters 1914–1947
MEET IN THE LOBBY
30–60 Minutes
FREE
Registration is not required
Join us for a guided experience of the Hirshhorn’s unparalleled collections and groundbreaking exhibitions. Each tour offers an opportunity to engage with select works on view and the art and artists of our time through close looking, critical thinking, and conversation. Explore Hirshhorn exhibitions, encounter the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, make connections, and learn new ways to create through common threads, ideas, and practices in artmaking today.
Joining is easy! Meet your Gallery Guide in the Hirshhorn Lobby.
Group of 10 or more people? Request a guided experience for your community group using our online request form.
The Hirshhorn’s campus, exhibitions, and public programs are accessible. Please let us know how we can tailor your visit to make your experience more inclusive. An ASL interpreter can be requested for this program; two weeks’ advance notice is appreciated. Email us at HirshhornExperience@si.edu with requests and questions.
Gallery Experience: From the Archives
Take a midday break and explore a treasure trove of archival materials from past exhibitions. It’s your chance to see where Joseph Hirshhorn purchased many of the works that became part of the permanent Museum collection, some of which are currently on view in Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960.
This program is presented in partnership with Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
Want to make more of your visit?
Come early or stay afterward for a Guided Tour of the Hirshhorn collection.
- 11:30 AM–12:30 PM: Guided Tour: Hirshhorn Highlights
- 12:30–1:30 PM: Gallery Spotlight: Portraits and Modern Beginnings
About the Exhibition
Revolutions highlights works from the early half of the Museum’s collection. During this time, two world wars were fought, new technologies appeared, groundbreaking scientific discoveries were made, and cities rapidly expanded. In response, artists in both Europe and North America invented dramatically novel approaches to art-making. This period saw the development of abstraction in Western art, the increased use of nontraditional materials, and the rise of Conceptualism—the notion that the idea behind an artwork is more important than the art object. Many artists used their work to comment on social and political issues; others looked inward, making art that dealt with personal expression or the problems of form itself. Revolutions is primarily organized chronologically, but also opens dialogues across history, with select contemporary artworks installed in conversation with modern masterworks to demonstrate how ideas and approaches formulated from 1860 to 1960 remain critical today.
If you have questions or a request for access services or accommodations that can make your experience more inclusive, please contact hirshhornexperience@si.edu. One to two weeks’ advance notice is recommended but not required.
Gallery Spotlight: Portraits and Modern Beginnings
30–60 minutes
FREE
Registration is not required
Join us for a guided experience of the Hirshhorn’s unparalleled collections and groundbreaking exhibitions. Each tour offers an opportunity to engage with select works on view and the art and artists of our time through close looking, critical thinking, and conversation. Explore Hirshhorn exhibitions, encounter the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, make connections, and learn new ways to create through common threads, ideas, and practices in art-making today.
Joining is easy! Meet your Gallery Guide in the Hirshhorn Lobby.
Group of 10 or more people? Request a guided experience for your community group using our online request form.
The Hirshhorn’s campus, exhibitions, and public programs are accessible. Please let us know how we can tailor your visit to make your experience more inclusive. An ASL interpreter can be requested for this program; two weeks’ advance notice is appreciated. Email us at HirshhornExperience@si.edu with requests and questions.
Gallery Spotlight: Portraits and Modern Beginnings
30–60 Minutes
FREE
Registration is not required
Join us for a guided experience of the Hirshhorn’s unparalleled collections and groundbreaking exhibitions. Each tour offers an opportunity to engage with select works on view and the art and artists of our time through close looking, critical thinking, and conversation. Explore Hirshhorn exhibitions, encounter the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, make connections, and learn new ways to create through common threads, ideas, and practices in artmaking today.
Joining is easy! Meet your Gallery Guide in the Hirshhorn Lobby.
Group of 10 or more people? Request a guided experience for your community group using our online request form.
The Hirshhorn’s campus, exhibitions, and public programs are accessible. Please let us know how we can tailor your visit to make your experience more inclusive. An ASL interpreter can be requested for this program; two weeks’ advance notice is appreciated. Email us at HirshhornExperience@si.edu with requests and questions.
Guided Tour: Abstract and Figurative, American Painters 1914-1947
30–60 Minutes
FREE
Registration is not required
Join us for a guided experience of the Hirshhorn’s unparalleled collections and groundbreaking exhibitions. Each tour offers an opportunity to engage with select works on view and the art and artists of our time through close looking, critical thinking, and conversation. Explore Hirshhorn exhibitions, encounter the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, make connections, and learn new ways to create through common threads, ideas, and practices in artmaking today.
Joining is easy! Meet your Gallery Guide in the Hirshhorn Lobby.
Group of 10 or more people? Request a guided experience for your community group using our online request form.
The Hirshhorn’s campus, exhibitions, and public programs are accessible. Please let us know how we can tailor your visit to make your experience more inclusive. An ASL interpreter can be requested for this program; two weeks’ advance notice is appreciated. Email us at HirshhornExperience@si.edu with requests and questions.
Guided Tour: Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960
30–60 Minutes
FREE
Registration is not required
Join us for a guided experience of the Hirshhorn’s unparalleled collections and groundbreaking exhibitions. Each tour offers an opportunity to engage with select works on view and the art and artists of our time through close looking, critical thinking, and conversation. Explore Hirshhorn exhibitions, encounter the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, make connections, and learn new ways to create through common threads, ideas, and practices in artmaking today.
Joining is easy! Meet your Gallery Guide in the Hirshhorn Lobby.
Group of 10 or more people? Request a guided experience for your community group using our online request form.
The Hirshhorn’s campus, exhibitions, and public programs are accessible. Please let us know how we can tailor your visit to make your experience more inclusive. An ASL interpreter can be requested for this program; two weeks’ advance notice is appreciated. Email us at HirshhornExperience@si.edu with requests and questions.
Guided Tour: Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960
30–60 minutes
FREE
Registration is not required
Join us for a guided experience of the Hirshhorn’s unparalleled collections and groundbreaking exhibitions. Each tour offers an opportunity to engage with select works on view and the art and artists of our time through close looking, critical thinking, and conversation. Explore Hirshhorn exhibitions, encounter the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, make connections, and learn new ways to create through common threads, ideas, and practices in art-making today.
Joining is easy! Meet your Gallery Guide in the Hirshhorn Lobby.
Group of 10 or more people? Request a guided experience for your community group using our online request form.
The Hirshhorn’s campus, exhibitions, and public programs are accessible. Please let us know how we can tailor your visit to make your experience more inclusive. An ASL interpreter can be requested for this program; two weeks’ advance notice is appreciated. Email us at HirshhornExperience@si.edu with requests and questions.
Art Cart: Futuristic Forms
Can you imagine what the world might look like in the future? Join us for a close look at artist Giacomo Balla’s Futurist Flowers. We’ll dream about the future, explore, and make futuristic forms of our own.
Find the Art Cart on the Second Level to pick up your futuristic materials!
Do this at home! Transform used cardboard materials into futuristic sculptures! 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 Saturday between 10 am and 1 pm.
Nursing caregivers are welcome. Stroller parking is available in the Hirshhorn Lobby. If there are access services or accommodations that can make your experience more inclusive (e.g., ASL interpretation, live captioning, etc.), please contact hmsgeducation@si.edu. 1-2 week’s advance notice is recommended but not required.
Art Cart: Cubist Creations
Use colors, lines, and shapes to represent yourself! Lean into layers, and experiment with form inspired by artist Pablo Picasso. Explore his work, compare his portrait to other artworks that represent people in Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, and make your own 2D portraits.
Find the Art Cart on the Second Level to pick up your portrait materials.
Do this at home! Transform a rock into a colorful work of art inspired by Pablo Picasso’s vibrant and expressive portraits. 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 Saturday between 10 am and 1 pm.
Nursing caregivers are welcome. Stroller parking is available in the Hirshhorn Lobby. If there are access services or accommodations that can make your experience more inclusive (e.g., ASL interpretation, live captioning, etc.), please contact hmsgeducation@si.edu. 1-2 week’s advance notice is recommended but not required.
Art Cart: Weave with Color
Play with colors and patterns! Create and get inspired by artist Anni Albers at this week’s Art Cart. Young artists will take a close look at Albers’s work Under Way. Then they can collage or weave their own layered work of art!
Find the Art Cart on the Lower Level and pick up your colorful materials.
Do this at home! Create a woven artwork with scrap fabric inspired by artist Anni Albers. 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 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. Drop in any Saturday between 10 AM and 1 PM.
Nursing caregivers are welcome. Stroller parking is available in the Hirshhorn Lobby. If there are access services or accommodations that can make your experience more inclusive (e.g., ASL interpretation, live captioning, etc.), please contact hmsgeducation@si.edu. One to two weeks’ advance notice is recommended but not required.
