Celebrate 50 Years of Modern Art at the Hirshhorn!

MEET AT: Just outside the main entrance to the Hirshhorn, inside the circular "donut." Look for Molly with the rainbow LAL sign.
COST: Free
NEAREST METRO: L'Enfant Plaza or Smithsonian

Did you know there are over 13,000 works of art in the Hirshhorn collection?! This exhibition collects the best of the museum's best all in one place. To inaugurate its 50th-anniversary season, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum presents Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, a major survey of artwork made during a transformative period characterized by new currents in science and philosophy and ever-increasing mechanization. The list of included artists is truly jaw-dropping -- everyone from Berenice Abbott to Picasso to Cy Twombly to Edward Hopper.

The exhibition includes contemporary work by 19 artists, such as Torkwase Dyson, Annette Lemieux, Genesis Tramane, Dyani White Hawk, and Flora Yukhnovich, whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas and approaches arising during these 100 years remain critical today. Revolutions takes a primarily chronological approach to historical movements, pausing occasionally to introduce contemporary works that serve as throughlines.

After we see the art, we'll find a spot on the Mall to sit and mingle, weather and time permitting.