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Just off the National Mall is a museum known for its contemporary art & design, known as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A 1966 act of Congress called for establishing a national ...

Ron Mueck's "Big Man" sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum is a crowd favorite, sparking a wide variety of reactions. Read more at https://www.smithsonianmag.com ...

Melissa Chiu is the director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the national museum of modern and contemporary art. Since her appointment in 2014, she has advocated for ...

Artist Alex Katz left something behind after his recent exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art. “Collaborations with Poets,” an exhibition by the 97-year-old artist, was shown last fall at ...

The Hirshhorn Museum also hosts many family-friendly events and activities to immerse kids in the art world. Meanwhile, several outdoor galleries make up the sculpture garden, which sits across ...

This year, the Institution’s museums are bringing to the public everything from the flair of state fairs to the artwork of Grandma Moses Roger Catlin New institutions dedicated to artificial ...