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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the Smithsonian Institution.
Melissa Chiu (born 1972) is an Australian museum director, curator and author, and the director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.. She is a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, [1] the American Alliance of Museums, and the Museum Association of New York. [2]
Olga Viso (born 1966) is a Cuban American curator of modern and contemporary art and a museum director based at Phoenix Art Museum and Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in Tempe, Arizona. [1]
Contemporary art museums around the world specialize in collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. The following is an alphabetical listing of major contemporary art museums , divided by country. A number of such museums are named Museum of Contemporary Art .
Asian art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1923 [9] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Contemporary and modern art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1974 [12] National Air and Space Museum: Aviation and spaceflight history Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1946, 1976 [note 1] [13] National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center ...
When Hirshhorn began to make money, he began to buy art, both paintings and sculpture. He amassed a collection of paintings and sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries. Applying himself seriously to the study of art, he would question dealers, critics, and curators, and visit artists in their studios. He made quick decisions on buying a piece.
Her work is included in the collections of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, [14] Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, [15] Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, [16] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C (part of the Smithsonian Institution), [17] Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, [18 ...
The piece returned to the Institute of Contemporary Art in February 2019. The piece came to the Dallas Museum of Art in September 2019. [14] The piece was filmed at Rokeby Farm, located in upstate New York, near Barrytown. Rokeby is a home and estate that at one point belonged to the Astor family, and later the Livingston family. The property ...