The Hirshhorn features international modern and contemporary art in the celebrated Gordon Bunshaft designed cylindrical building, adjoining plaza, and sunken sculpture garden. The museum is a leading ...

The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden may be more "museum" and less "garden," if current plans for it mature. Richard Koshalek, the Hirshhorn's director, said Tuesday that he's ...

The controversial revitalization of the Hirshhorn Museum’s Sculpture Garden was approved by the National Capital Planning Commission on Thursday, ending almost three years of negotiations among ...

The New York Times called it a “gravel pit” in 1974, the year the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as it is officially called, opened.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden In the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still a flying saucer landed in Washington D.C on The Ellipse, not far from the National Mall.

Smithsonian officials hope to transform the garden into a new "front door" for the art museum. The Hirshhorn Museum’s Sculpture Garden is now one step closer to a full overhaul, as planners just ...

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced March 11 that its board of trustees unanimously voted in favor of moving forward with a renovation and redesign of its Sculpture Garden for the ...

As the chief curator and deputy director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC for 14 years, I watched visitors be drawn hypnotically to Gordon Bunshaft’s dynamic ...

So it has happened at the Hirshhorn, which in 2019 unveiled its “Sculpture Garden Revitalization” plan, with Hiroshi Sugimoto, a Japanese artist-architect, awarded the commission.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was once an odd fit for Washington — a square peg in a round building. But it is in an ambitious and welcoming phase.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the national museum of modern and contemporary art and one of the world’s leading voices for 21st-century art and culture. Located on the National Mall in ...

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. By Zachary Small. Dec. 2, 2021. A much-debated redesign of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden by the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has passed its final hurdle ...