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Alyson Shotz discusses her work in Currents.

Frank Stella's Arundel Castle discussed by Assistant Curator Melissa Ho during the Friday Gallery Talks.

A Short Video on Dan Graham's Sculpture For Gordon Bunshaft

A Closer look at Jim Lambie's Floor Installation

Friday Gallery Talk: Curatorial assistant Jessica Beck on Andy Warhol

Curatorial research assistant Javier Ortega-Alvarez talks about Rafael Soto's "Eight Silver," 1968, from the Hirshhorn collection.

The idiosyncratic working methods of Willem de Kooning have long engendered speculation among conservators and art historians based on visual inspection and anecdotal accounts, rather than rigorous technical analysis.

Friday Gallery Talk: Curator Evelyn Hankins on Fred Sandback.

Exhibition co-curator Kerry Brougher and experts in a range of fields will discuss multiple facets of Yves Klein's career in this gallery walk-through.

Excerpt from Wolfgang Laib's installation of his piece "Pollination".

Curator Valerie Fletcher takes viewers through a tour of Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration.

Curatorial Research Associate Ryan Hill talks with Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow Henrique Oliveira about Willem deKooning's "Woman, Sag Harbor"

During the opening week of the artist's major midcareer survey at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA), UK-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare visits the Hirshhorn to discuss his work.

Dominick Pisano, Curator, Division of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum, on Theodore J. Roszak's "Ascension."

Friday Gallery Talk: Artist David Page on Nick Cave's "Soundsuit"

In Conversation with Jennifer Wen Ma and Ryan Hill

Curatorial Research Associate Ryan Hill talks to artist Candice Lin about her work.

Local DC arts writer Glenn Dixon discusses Bruce Nauman's "From Hand to Mouth" in the Collection.

DC-area artist Erik Sandberg on Yinka Shonibare during a Friday Gallery Talk.

Gary Simmons talks about his work during Meet the Artist.

Associate curator Kristen Hileman leads a walkthrough of "Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection".

Raphael Jesus Soto discussed by Tatiana Flores during the Friday Gallery Talks.

Black Box artist Ori Gersht joins curator Kelly Gordon via phone to discuss his work and ideas.

Morris Louis discussed by High Museum curator Jeffrey Grove.

Friday Gallery Talk: Artist and Professor Tim Spelios on Bruce Nauman

Friday Gallery Talk: Arts writer Kriston Capps on Ed Ruscha.

Candice Breitz gives us an in-depth look into her work Mother + Father, 2005, on view in The Cinema Effect Part II: Realisms.

Curatorial Assistant Al Miner discusses Dan Graham's Sculpture Garden commission

Dietrich Neumann talks about the blurring of illusion and reality in architecture and film.

Hirshhorn Associate Curator of Modern Art Evelyn Hankins discusses the work of Alexander Calder in this Friday Gallery Talk.

Artist Martin Kersels discusses the Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas with Ryan Hill

Programs Director Milena Kalinovska talks with artist Carolee Schneemann about "Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions" from 1963, on view in "Currents: Recent Acquisitions"

Artist Siebren Versteeg talks about his work "Neither There Nor There" with curator Kelly Gordon. The work appears in the Hirshhorn's two-part exhibition "The Cinema Effect"

Artist Wangechi Mutu grew up in Nairobi, Kenya and lives in Brooklyn. Join her for a discussion of her art and how both places influence her work.

Susan Lake on Willem de Kooning the Artist's Materials.

Join historian Yve-Alain Bois for a discussion of Ellsworth Kelly's singular visual language. A major figure in modern art, Kelly's career as an abstract painter and sculptor began sixty years ago.

Join Diane Upright on the opening day of the Morris Louis Now exhibition as she shares her perspectives on the artist.

Yoko Ono discusses her "Wish Tree for Washington D.C." installation at the Hirshhorn with Chief Curator Kerry Brougher.

Noelle Tan in conversation with Ryan Hill about her work.

Evan Holloway, an artist featured in The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, talks about his own work and works from the Hirshhorn's collection which he selected for his Collection in Context installation. Includes 3-minute musical composition.

Associate curator Kelly Gordon speaks with Danish filmmaker Jesper Just about his new Black Box exhibition at the Hirshhorn. Just, who currently lives and works in Copenhagen, creates short films noted for their quirky scenarios and high production values.

In a first for the Hirshhorn Museum, we have invited conceptual artist John Baldessari to act as guest curator. He will explore the Museum's holdings and create an exhibition that expresses his individual perspective.

Michael Auping, curator of Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth, offers insights on the complexity of Kiefer's work and the artist's career-long investigation of the celestial and the terrestrial.

Join us for an evening with filmmaker Jonas Mekas, a central figure in the avant-garde art and cinema community in New York that began in the 1960s. This marks Mekas's return to the Hirshhorn-he was the first guest speaker at the film program in 1976.

Artangel co-director James Lingwood and Hirshhorn associate curator Anne Ellegood will examine the role of a specific place in artistic practice.

Join art historian Michael Fried for a discussion of the artist's work in the context of new "art" photography, which includes such artists as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Demand.

Emerging artist Hiraki Sawa's enchanting and whimsical videos are the equivalent of digital trompe-oeil-toy planes fly from room to room, household objects sprout legs, and miniature animals gallop across countertops.

Hiroshi Sugimoto and exhibition co-curator Kerry Brougher discuss the artist's creative process and vision.