Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Francis Bacon</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Jean-Dubuffet/EECC4FAEBDF5BB7D">Jean Dubuffet</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Lee-Krasner/A9B48E9875A0E44A">Lee Krasner</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Wifredo-Lam/33591E2950CCC55B">Wifredo Lam</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Jacob-Lawrence/F66B670A4BD46501">Jacob Lawrence</a>, Georgia O’Keeffe and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Jackson-Pollock/C4BDCEEAFA77B116">Jackson Pollock</a>—made during 100 turbulent and energetic years.</p><p>The exhibition includes contemporary work by 19 artists, such as <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Torkwase-Dyson/358BBD3B14496B79">Torkwase Dyson</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Rashid-Johnson/21F5F53C049F0651">Rashid Johnson</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Annette-Lemieux/46FD1387C783FF8E">Annette Lemieux</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Dyani-White-Hawk/B779C8451FACE7B3">Dyani White Hawk</a> and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hirshhorn-Museum-and-Sculpture-Garden--S/"/Artist/Flora-Yukhnovich/C7C80FAAE00D302B">Flora Yukhnovich</a>, whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas and approaches that arose during these 100 years remain critical. Organized by Hirshhorn Associate Curator Marina Isgro and Assistant Curator Betsy Johnson, “Revolutions” will fill the Museum’s second-floor outer-circle galleries from March 22, 2024, to April 20, 2025.</p><p>“Revolutions” spotlights the rush of art historical movements and genres that characterized the arc of Modernism and the ascendancy of abstraction, notably through the work of artists interested in engaging the mind, not just the eye. This breadth was evident in Joseph Hirshhorn’s founding gifts to the Museum. An industrialist, collector, and philanthropist, Hirshhorn donated nearly 6,000 works—including a significant number of sculptures—in anticipation of the Museum’s opening on October 4, 1974, and 6,400 more upon his death in 1981. Together these gifts constitute one of the most important collections of postwar American and European art in the world. Today, the Hirshhorn collection comprises more than 13,130 artworks.</p><p><br></p>" />